Tunnel to Freedom
A true German story
95 mins
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)
Ellen Sesta
Self (archive footage)
Reuven Frank
Self (archive footage)
Eveline Rudolph
Self (archive footage)
Ekkehardt Schirmer
Self (archive footage)
Marcus Vetter
Director
Marcus Vetter
Editor
Renate Nebe
Editor
Christoph Lerch
Camera Operator
Immo Rentz
Camera Operator
Christian Heschl
Music
Jens Ole Huerkamp
Music
Fabian Schaller
Sound Designer
Jens Ole Huerkamp
Sound Designer
Gerd Böttler
Sound Designer
Fabian Schaller
Sound Mixer
Wolfgang Orth
Sound Mixer
Michele Gentile
Color Grading
Marcela Rossilini
Colorist
Georg Zengerling
Post-Production Manager
Ulf Meyer
Producer
Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri
Editorial Staff
Simone Reuter
Editorial Staff
Michele Gentile
Art Direction