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Tunnel to Freedom

A true German story

7.2(5)20211h 35m1

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.

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Language
German
  • berlin, germany
  • berlin wall
  • cold war
  • german-german border
  • interview
  • escape from german democratic republic
  • east berlin
  • construction site
  • archive footage
  • 1960s
  • escape plan
  • old footage

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Germany

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Release dates

  • FranceFR

    • TVArte23 Jul 2021
  • GermanyDE

    • TVArte22 Jul 2021

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Tunnel to Freedom was released on 22 July 2021.

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