Tunnel to Freedom

Tunnel to Freedom (2021)

Released: 2021-07-22 Duration: 1hr 35min
Rating 7.2
A true German story

Overview

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.

Production Companies

Filmperspektive
Addictive Film
SWR
SWR
ARTE
ARTE
Little Big Talents
Little Big Talents
Bukera Pictures

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language de
Popularity 1.304

Directed By

Marcus Vetter

Crew

Director
Marcus Vetter
Editor
Renate Nebe
Camera Operator
Jörg Widmer
Camera Operator
Christoph Lerch
Camera Operator
Immo Rentz
Sound Designer
Fabian Schaller
Sound Designer
Jens Ole Huerkamp
Sound Designer
Gerd Böttler
Sound Mixer
Fabian Schaller
Sound Mixer
Wolfgang Ort
Color Grading
Michele Gentile
Post-Production Manager
Georg Zengerling
Producer
Ulf Meyer
Editorial Staff
Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri
Editorial Staff
Simone Reuter
Art Direction
Michele Gentile

TOP CAST

Udo Rau
Udo Rau

Narrator (voice)

Peter Schmidt Vogel
Peter Schmidt Vogel

Self (archive footage)

Luigi Spina
Luigi Spina

Self (archive footage)

Domenico Sesta
Domenico Sesta

Self (archive footage)

Uli Pfeiffer
Uli Pfeiffer

Self (archive footage)

Anita Herschel
Anita Herschel

Self (archive footage)

Joachim Rudolph
Joachim Rudolph

Self (archive footage)

Franz Baake
Franz Baake

Self (archive footage)

Fritjof Meyer
Fritjof Meyer

Self (archive footage)

Peter Dehmel
Peter Dehmel

Self (archive footage)

Egon Bahr
Egon Bahr

Self (archive footage)

Ellen Sesta
Ellen Sesta

Self (archive footage)

Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr

Self (archive footage)

Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank

Self (archive footage)

Eveline Rudolph
Eveline Rudolph

Self (archive footage)

Ekkehardt Schirmer
Ekkehardt Schirmer

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Self (archive footage)

Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Lothar de Maizière
Lothar de Maizière

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Richard von Weizsäcker
Richard von Weizsäcker

Self (voice) (archive footage)

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