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their fear of betrayal by inquisitive neighbors and the exhaustion of the digging are only a few of the difficulties faced by the group

Director: Herbert Wilcox

1h 30min | Drama

Director: Henry Koster

Escape from East Berlin AVAILABILITY:GET DVD their fear of betrayal byIn January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall, led by Erwin Becker, a chauffeur in the car pool of the East Germany Parliament, who served as technical adviser on this film. The film opens with Karl Schroeder (Don Murray), chauffeur to an East German Major, seeing a friend killed as he tried to drive a tow truck through a gate in the wall. He is persuaded by the friend's sister, Erika