Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Direction
Roland Suso Richter squeezes 150 minutes of suffocating tension
Production
Actual tunnel sets that made actors genuinely panic
Acting
Heino Ferch's shoulders carry the weight of a divided nation
Director
Roland Suso Richter
Heino Ferch
Harry Melchior
Nicolette Krebitz
Friederike " Fritzi " Scholz
Sebastian Koch
Matthis Hiller
Alexandra Maria Lara
Lotte Lohmann
Claudia Michelsen
Carola Hiller
Felix Eitner
Fred von Klausnitz
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Vittorio Castanza
Heinrich Schmieder
Theo Lohmann
Uwe Kockisch
Oberst Krüger
Karin Baal
Marianne von Krausnitz
Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
Fotograf Grüner
Florian Panzner
Heiner
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