Tunnel der Freiheit
A true German story
July 22, 2021
1h 35m
DE
Marcus Vetter
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.
Udo Rau
Narrator (voice)
Claus Stürmer
Self
Inge Stürmer
Self
N/A
5
Kerstin Stürmer
Self
Hasso Herschel
Self
Filmperspektive
DE
Addictive Film
DE
SWR
DE
ARTE
DE
Little Big Talents
DE
Bukera Pictures
DE
