A Hero's Death (2001)
Heldentod - Der Tunnel und die Lüge
Overview
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz.
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It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel into West Berlin. Just before the last few reach the other side, the East German border guards notice the escape and open fire. Remarkably, all the refugees and their escape agents make it out of the tunnel unscathed, but one border guard is dead: 21-year-old officer Egon Schultz. A Hero's Death is a Documentary movie, released on 2001-08-08, runtime 50 minutes.
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Directed by
Britta Wauer
Cast
- Rainer Albertz as Himself
- Michael Baade as Himself
- Egon Bahr as Himself
- Nadine Beyer as herself
- Günter Bohnsack as Himself
- Johannes Fröhner as Himself
- Regine Hildebrandt as herself
- Hubert Hohlbein as Himself
- Hagen Koch as Himself
- Thomas Mauch as Himself
- Siegfried Mechler as Himself
- Joachim Neumann as Himself
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