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Escape from East Berlin is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak released in USA on 1 november 1962 with Don Murray

Escape from East Berlin (1962)

Escape from East Berlin
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Released in USA 1 november 1962
Length 1h29
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating66% 3.337843.337843.337843.337843.33784

Escape from East Berlin is a 1962 film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Don Murray.

Synopsis

The story takes place in East Berlin soon after the Berlin Wall is built, and is based on an actual escape on January 28, 1962. Kurt Schröder is a chauffeur to East German Major Eckhardt and his seductive wife Heidi, and lives within sight of the Wall. Kurt is having an affair with Heidi. One night he sees a friend, Günther Jurgens, who works at the garage where Kurt has the Major's car maintained, drive his truck into the wall, and get killed trying to escape to the west. Günther's sister, Erika, comes looking for Günther when he doesn't return, and is told that Kurt saw him last night. She then goes to Kurt's house, where he lives with his mother, Uncle Albrecht (a musician), sister Ingeborg and kid brother Helmut. Erika is intent on escaping to West Berlin, thinking that her brother made it. Kurt, reasonably satisfied with his life, has no intention of risking his life to attempt an escape. Erika then looks out beyond the barbed wire, but Kurt catches her as she tries to crawl under, and they pretend to be lovers to hide her intentions from suspicious guards. Kurt then hides her in his house. A piece of Erika's clothing is caught in the barbed wire, and the guards track her to the Schröder's house. She hides in a room without a floor, and narrowly escapes the guards after they conclude that she could not be in the room.

Actors

Don Murray

(Kurt Schröder)Christine Kaufmann

(Erika Jürgens)Ingrid van Bergen

(Ingeborg Schröder)Werner Klemperer

(Walter Brunner)Horst Janson

(Günther Jürgens)
And :
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Kai Fischer
Kurt Waitzmann
Bruno W. Pantel
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