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Escape from East Berlin (1962)
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November 1962 (USA) moreTagline:
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In January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Tunnel
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East Berlin
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Another brick off the wall moreCast
(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 (as Karl Schell) | |
| 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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USA:94 min | USA:89 min (TCM print)Language:
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Netherlands:12 | Finland:(Banned) (1963) | West Germany:6 (f) | UK:U (1962) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #20288)Fun Stuff
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Robert Siodmak had nothing to prove when he made "Escape from East Berlin".Maybe his film ,although inspired by real facts ,looks more like fiction,but he knew what he was talking about: Driven away from his land by Goebbels after "Brennendes Geheimnis " in 1933, he took refuge in France where he made at least two classics ("Mollenard" and "Piège" ),then in America where he reached peaks of films noirs ("cry of the city" "spiral staircase" "criss cross" ....).When he returned to Germany ,he depicted his country after the war ("die Ratten" ) without indulgence.Another movie made in France ("L'Affaire Nina B") dealt with Nazi criminals .
Siomak's genius as a film noir past master can still be felt in "escape...." ,notably in the first scenes where the characters seem to be buried alive in walls of stone and barbed wire.A short prologue with a voice over tells us so: "these men and women have done nothing and they are prisoners..."Don Murray looks too American but it's not a big problem.Since 1989,the Wall of shame has fortunately become a thing of the past.Siomak's movie was one of the first thrusts.