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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Gabrielle Upton (story) and
Peter Berneis (story) ...
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Release Date:
November 1962 (USA) more
Tagline:
Headline Hot! Filmed Where It Happened!
Plot:
In January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall... more | add synopsis
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Is this history now? more (10 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Don Murray | ... | Kurt Schröder |
 | Christine Kaufmann | ... | Erika Jurgens |
 | Werner Klemperer | ... | Walter Brunner |
| Ingrid van Bergen | ... | Ingeborg Schröder |
| Carl Schell | ... | Major Eckhardt |
| Edith Schultze-Westrum | ... | Mother Schröder |
| Bruno Fritz | ... | Uncle Albrecht |
| Maria Tober | ... | Marga |
| Horst Janson | ... | Günther Jurgens |
| Kai Fischer | ... | Heidi Eckhardt |
| Alfred Balthoff | ... | Klussendorf a Neighbor |
| Anita Kupsch | ... | Bambi |
| Kurt Waitzmann | ... | Prof. Thomas Jurgens |
| Helma Seitz | ... | Frau Jürgens |
| Ronald Dehne | ... | Helmut Schröder |
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Also Known As:
Tunnel 28 (UK) (West Germany)
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USA:94 min | USA:89 min (TCM print)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Netherlands:12 | Finland:(Banned) (1963) | West Germany:6 (f) | UK:U (1962) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #20288)
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Uncle Albrecht: Off to band practice. We are marching in the celebration parade. I don't know what we're celebrating, but we are marching. more
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Referenced in Der Tunnel (2001) more
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I watched the Berlin Wall come down in 1989. This film brings back some haunting memories. The despair of people realizing that they are trapped in the cage called East Berlin. And what we know about the Stasi--the East German secret police--makes me cringe realizing how everybody was spied upon.
Yes, the movie has a happy ending. But, while 28 people found freedom through the tunnel, think of those who lived out their days behind the wall.