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Berlin Escape Artists (2019)
Directed by Jean Bergeron
Documentary, History · 53m
An ideological and physical barrier fell on 9 November 1989 in Berlin. For 28 years, this 155 km wall divided Germany in two, separating friends and family. The recent discovery of some documents reveals the stories of those who managed to escape to join their loved ones, or simply to regain their freedom. Demonstrating imagination and courage, some dug tunnels to get under the Berlin Wall, others inflated balloons to fly over it, while others disguised themselves with fake uniforms. By combining archives, reconstitution sequences and intrigue scenes, this documentary plunges us into a Berlin that has now disappeared, through the prism of the art of escape under the GDR.
Cast
Mila Bancheva
Anton Dimitrachkov
Crew
- Director
- Jean Bergeron
- Writer
- Patrick Massett
- Editor
- Guillaume Millet, Elric Robichon
Details
- Original title
- Berlin - oder: Die Kunst der Flucht
- Release date
- 2019-10-05
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Canada, France, Germany
- Production
- Flair Productions, Alpha-Zoulou Films, ZDF/Arte, France Télévisions, Radio Canada Productions