95 minutos
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
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)
