A Hero's Death
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.
Cast
Rainer Albertz
Himself
Michael Baade
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Egon Bahr
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Nadine Beyer
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Günter Bohnsack
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Johannes Fröhner
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Regine Hildebrandt
herself
Hubert Hohlbein
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Hagen Koch
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Thomas Mauch
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Siegfried Mechler
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Joachim Neumann
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Ludwig A. Rehlinger
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Jürgen Schreiber
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Walter Venedey
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Storyline
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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