Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Heino Ferch
as Harry Melchior
Nicolette Krebitz
as Friederike " Fritzi " Scholz
Sebastian Koch
as Matthis Hiller
Alexandra Maria Lara
as Lotte Lohmann
Claudia Michelsen
as Carola Hiller
Felix Eitner
as Fred von Klausnitz
Mehmet Kurtuluş
as Vittorio Castanza
Heinrich Schmieder
as Theo Lohmann
Uwe Kockisch
as Oberst Krüger
Karin Baal
as Marianne von Krausnitz
Dorothea Moritz
as Hermine
Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
as Fotograf Grüner