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Five determined men attempt a daring rescue under the Berlin Wall.
6.7 / 10 IMDb March 25, 1981 2h 21m
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Director
Runtime
2h 21m
Release Date
March 25, 1981
Genre
Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
Status
Released
Languages
German, English
Country
Germany, United States of America
Writers
Cast
Richard Thomas
as Sandy Mueller
Horst Buchholz
as Emerich Weber
José Ferrer
as Martin Komansky
Ute Christensen
as Ilse Morrell
Jacques Breuer
as Joachim Lentz
Nicholas Farrell
as Georg Heptner
Kenneth Griffith
as Bruno Balderbach
Robert Freitag
as Dr. Lentz
Gerald W. Abrams
as Phil
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Ilse Bahrs
as Butcher Customer
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Pasqual Breuer
as Wolf Lentz
Carl Duering
as Klaus Schoenemann
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Josef Ernst
as German Border Guard
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Klaus Götte
as Intelligence Officer
Günther Maria Halmer
as Herr Klemnitz
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Irene Jarosch
as Woman in Crowd
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Wolfgang Jörg
as Konrad Moss
Charlotte Kerr
as Marta Kurzman
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Hans Madin
as Herr Weber
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Joachim Mock
as Workman
Production Companies
Cypress Point Productions
Filmways Television
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