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.
Udo Rau
as Narrator (voice)
Claus Stürmer
as Self
Inge Stürmer
as Self
Kerstin Stürmer
as Self
Peter Schmidt Vogel
as Self (archive footage)
Luigi Spina
as Self (archive footage)
Domenico Sesta
as Self (archive footage)
Hasso Herschel
as Self
Uli Pfeiffer
as Self (archive footage)
Anita Herschel
as Self (archive footage)
Joachim Rudolph
as Self (archive footage)
Franz Baake
as Self (archive footage)
