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A Hero's Death (2001)
Directed by Britta Wauer
Documentary · 50m
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
Egon Bahr
Crew
- Director
- Britta Wauer
- Writer
- Britta Wauer
- Director of Photography
- Randa Chahoud
- Editor
- Berthold Baule
- Producer
- Claudia Bissinger, Tanja Ziegler
Details
- Original title
- Heldentod - Der Tunnel und die Lüge
- Release date
- 2001-08-08
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Ziegler Film