Directed by:
Robert SiodmakScreenplay:
Millard LampellCinematography:
Georg KrauseComposer:
Hans-Martin MajewskiCast:
Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer, Horst Janson, Kurt Waitzmann, Christiane Maybach, Rudolf W. Marnitz, Ingrid van Bergen, Alfred Balthoff (more)Plots(1)
When his friend Gunther Jurgena attempts to break out of East Germany by crashing his truck through the Berlin Wall, Kurt Schr?der (Don Murray) watches in horror as he is shot dead by the border guards. So when Gunther's sister Erika (Christine Kaufmann) follows her brother and barely escapes the same fate, Kurt offers to help. Aided by 26 family members and neighbors who also wish to defect, Kurt tunnels under the Wall, unaware that Erika's parents have betrayed them and that armed troops are about to move in. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Don Murray](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/230/162230368_68b1d2.jpg)
Don Murray
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Advise and Consent (1962)
![Christine Kaufmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/234/160234056_16b61e.jpg)
Christine Kaufmann
Austria
Best movies:
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
Bagdad Café (1987)
Lola (1981)
![Werner Klemperer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/446/159446339_7d7cfe.gif)
Werner Klemperer
German Empire
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Ship of Fools (1965)
![Horst Janson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/612/159612666_9b74af.jpg)
Horst Janson
German Empire
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless (1968)
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972)
![Kurt Waitzmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/408/159408537_5551b5.jpg)
Kurt Waitzmann
German Empire
Best movies:
The Mysterious Magician (1964)
The Sinister Monk (1965)
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
![Christiane Maybach](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/739/160739478_71457d.jpg)
Christiane Maybach
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Rudolf W. Marnitz
Best movies:
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Judgment in Berlin (1988)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Ingrid van Bergen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/214/160214330_f3ef28.jpg)
Ingrid van Bergen
Poland
Best movies:
Wir Wunderkinder (1958)
Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)
Town Without Pity (1961)
Alfred Balthoff
German Empire
Best movies:
Ehe im Schatten (1947)
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Helma Seitz
German Empire
Best movies:
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Käte Jaenicke
German Empire
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Angry Harvest (1985)
![Kai Fischer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/645/161645557_003f55.jpg)
Kai Fischer
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse (1966) (TV movie)
Room 13 (1964)
Claus Eberth
German Empire
Best movies:
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Bruno W. Pantel
German Empire
Best movies:
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
Lucy, Terror of the Street (1983)
Edith Schultze-Westrum
German Empire
Best movies:
The Bridge (1959)
Mrs Dulská's Morals (1958)
The House in Karp Lane (1965)
Benno Hoffmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Apache Gold (1963)
Werner - Volles Rooäää!!! (1999)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
![Klaus Dahlen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/527/162527658_a2e2df.jpg)
Klaus Dahlen
German Empire
Best movies:
Otto - Der Film (1985)
Little Women (1970)
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Georg Richard Wenkhaus
Best movies:
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
White Star (1983)
Bruno Fritz
German Empire
Best movies:
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Karl Spanner
Best movies:
Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Gotcha! (1985)