Escape from East Berlin
- Don Murray: Kurt Schroeder
- Christine Kaufmann: Erika Jürgens
- Ingrid van Bergen: Ingeborg Schroeder
- Werner Klemperer: Walter Brunner
- Carl Schell: Major Eckhardt
- Bruno Fritz: Uncle Albert
- Alfred Balthoff: Klüssendorf
- Horst Janson: Günther Jürgens
- Edith Schultze- Westrum: Mrs. Schroeder
- Kai Fischer: Heidi Eckhardt
- Anita Kupsch: Bambi
- Kurt Waitzmann: Professor Jürgens
- Helma Seitz: Woman Jürgens
- Ronald Dehne: Helmut
- Arne Elsholtz: Lemke
- Georg Bastian: Tiller man
- Kate Jaenicke: Pink
- Waltraud Hongxin: Marga Wegener
- Bruno W. Pantel: Moeller senior
- Norbert Schultze: Moeller junior
- Christian Bötticher: Fritz
- Klaus Dahlen: first mechanic
- Benno Hoffmann: second mechanic
- Georg Wenkhaus: third mechanic
- Ute Boy: girl
- Claus Eberth: policeman
- Christine Proud: Maids
- Hans Waldemar Anders: second-hand dealers
- Charles Luce: Captain
- Rudolph W. Marnitz: West Berlin captain
- Christiane Maybach: Woman Eckhardt
Tunnel 28 is a arisen in German - American co-production drama by Robert Siodmak escape from the year 1962. This production is considered the first filmic response to the Berlin Wall was built on 13 August 1961.
Action
The film retells events that have taken place in January 1962 in East Berlin. Kurt Schroeder works as a driver of the GDR majors Eckhardt and his wife Heidi. Kurt, who lives within sight of the Berlin Wall, has an affair with Heidi. One night gets Schröder, like his friend Günther Jürgens tried using a truck to break through the wall to escape to the West. This Jürgens is killed. Gunther's sister Erika Guenther examined, as this no longer returns home and finds out that Kurt had seen him at the failed wall opening. Erika visited then Kurt at his house, where those lives with his mother, his uncle Albert, his sister Ingeborg and little brother Helmut. She tells him that she intended to flee from the GDR. They do not know that her brother Günther died while trying to escape, and Kurt did not tell her also.
Kurt has established itself in the GDR, he has no major problems. So he has not the slightest intention to " close over ". But Erika thinks he has an ally in him and tried on your own boundless naivete durchzuklettern just under the barbed wire. At the last moment Kurt keeps them away from the doomed crazy idea and plays with her lovers when approaching GDR border. With difficulty, the first suspicion of an alleged " Republic refugee " can be dispersed, but then a piece of Erika's clothes is discovered in barbed wire. The border guards will be active immediately. It follows the trail to the Erika's house Kurt Schroeder. The she hid in a room with no floor, so that the controlling frontiersman not look there for her.
Kurt Schroeder begins his attitude to the workers 'and peasants' state to reconsider, and finally summarizes a far-reaching decision. He wants to bring the entire family to the West. The neighbor Marga Wegener, whose husband has been in the West wants to join. Kurt has a plan to dig a tunnel under the wall. He is responsible for all planning to the last detail, but itself has no intention of leaving East Berlin. While the chapel of Uncle Albert, a musician who plays loud, will commence drilling in the basement. Kurt sets out on a guard that is to take care if something is brewing against them. To the small group of conspirators soon joined by another escape Williger, Walter Brunner. While Kurt is feverishly engaged in the construction of the tunnel, his feelings for the very young Erika are getting stronger. He finally gets up the courage and tells her that her brother Günther died. Kurt tries to comfort her. He knows now that he will flee together with Erika in the west when the tunnel is finished.
On January 27, 1962, the excavation work has been completed. Kurt is the first, the trial enters West Berlin ground. In the night the mass exodus to take place. However, Marga Wegener commits a crucial mistake. In faith, Erika's parents were inaugurated and agree to the escape of her daughter, she talks to them about it. But Erika's father, a university professor, is linientreu through and through and reveals the escape plan Major Eckhardt. From his beloved Heidi, the wife of Major, Kurt learns that one is already on the lookout for him. Kurt therefore urges them to hurry. At home, he must also find even that Uncle Albrecht has fetched some of his band members who also want to flee. The number of refugees tunnel has thus increased to 28. The police have surrounded his house, as the daring escape begins. Kurt creep will last through the tunnel so as to secure the back. As a border guard sees him, he shoots and hurt Kurt. With his last strength plays Kurt in the west of Berlin. He brings the tunnel to collapse and is drawn into the open by Erika.
Production Notes
Since emerged in German -American co-production, had the rotated western Berlin film also has a U.S. Title: Escape From East Berlin.
The premiere took place on 22 October 1962 in Berlin Congress Hall. The following month, the tunnel was 28 premiered in the United States.
The Filmbauten designed -Dieter F. Bartels and Ted Haworth.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film took tunnel 28 "exciting retold in a made-up story ," but also interjected: " entertainment routine, no historical document. "
The mirror slating the film: "Although three Hollywood writers and the German - American director Robert Siodmak, a native of Berlin, the walled Germans turn a lot of sympathy, the play of light proves to be inartistic and not free from embarrassment. The vorangespulten silent newsreel images from the August 13, 1961 act much stronger than the subsequent fade dramatization. The dialogues between the main actors Don Murray and Christine Kaufmann could be taken bundesministeriellen speeches. "