Tunnel to Freedom
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.
Release Date: 2021-07-22
Official website: https://www.tunnel-to-freedom.com/
Egon Bahr
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Schorr
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)