Tunnel to Freedom (2021)
1h 35m
Running Time
July 22, 2021Release Date
Tunnel to Freedom (2021)
1h 35m
Running Time
July 22, 2021Release Date
Network & Production Companies



Plot.
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But on September 14, 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135-meter tunnel to the West. For more than 4 months, students from West Berlin, including 2 Italians, dug this tunnel. When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging, they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel. They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC, an American television station.
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Cast & Crew.

Udo Rau
Narrator (voice)

Claus Stürmer
Self

Inge Stürmer
Self

Kerstin Stürmer
Self

Peter Schmidt Vogel
Self (archive footage)

Luigi Spina
Self (archive footage)

Domenico Sesta
Self (archive footage)

Hasso Herschel
Self

Uli Pfeiffer
Self (archive footage)

Anita Herschel
Self (archive footage)

Joachim Rudolph
Self (archive footage)

Franz Baake
Self (archive footage)

Fritjof Meyer
Self (archive footage)

Peter Dehmel
Self (archive footage)

Egon Bahr
Self (archive footage)

Ellen Sesta
Self (archive footage)

Daniel Schorr
Self (archive footage)

Reuven Frank
Self (archive footage)

Eveline Rudolph
Self (archive footage)

Ekkehardt Schirmer
Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)

Walter Ulbricht
Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)

Helmut Kohl
Self (voice) (archive footage)

Lothar de Maizière
Self (voice) (archive footage)

Richard von Weizsäcker
Self (voice) (archive footage)

Marcus Vetter
Director / Editor

Renate Nebe
Editor

Jörg Widmer
Camera Operator

Christoph Lerch
Camera Operator

Immo Rentz
Camera Operator

Christian Heschl
Music

Jens Ole Huerkamp
Music / Sound Designer

Fabian Schaller
Sound Designer / Sound Mixer

Gerd Böttler
Sound Designer

Wolfgang Orth
Sound Mixer

Michele Gentile
Color Grading / Art Direction

Marcela Rossilini
Colorist

Georg Zengerling
Post-Production Manager
Media.


Details.
Release DateJuly 22, 2021
Original NameTunnel der Freiheit
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Genres
Last updated:
This Movie Is About.
berlin germany
berlin wall
cold war
german-german border
east berlin
1960s
television journalist
secret tunnel
interview
escape from german democratic republic
construction site
archival footage
escape plan
old footage
testimony
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