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Berlin Tunnel 21

Berlin Tunnel 21

Five determined men attempt a daring rescue under the Berlin Wall.

1981•2h 21m•6.5/10
DramaThrillerTV Movie

Ratings

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6.5/10(7)

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

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Production

Cypress Point Productions, Filmways Television

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas

Sandy Mueller

Horst Buchholz

Horst Buchholz

Emerich Weber

José Ferrer

José Ferrer

Martin Komansky

Ute Christensen

Ute Christensen

Ilse Morrell

Jacques Breuer

Jacques Breuer

Joachim Lentz

Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell

Georg Heptner

Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Bruno Balderbach

Robert Freitag

Robert Freitag

Dr. Lentz

Gerald W. Abrams

Gerald W. Abrams

Phil

Ilse Bahrs

Butcher Customer

Pasqual Breuer

Wolf Lentz

Carl Duering

Carl Duering

Klaus Schoenemann

Josef Ernst

German Border Guard

Klaus Götte

Intelligence Officer

Günther Maria Halmer

Günther Maria Halmer

Herr Klemnitz

Irene Jarosch

Woman in Crowd

Wolfgang Jörg

Konrad Moss

Charlotte Kerr

Charlotte Kerr

Marta Kurzman

Hans Madin

Herr Weber

Joachim Mock

Workman

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