Escape to Berlin (German: Flucht nach Berlin) is a 1961 West German thriller film directed by Will Tremper and starring Christian Doermer, Susanne Korda and Narziss Sokatscheff[de]. Location shooting took place around Wannsee in West Berlin and near to Bad Hersfeld. It was shot just before the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Synopsis

A young farmer living in East Germany unsuccessfully resists programme of collectivisation and then chooses to flee to the democratic West Germany.

Cast

  • Christian Doermer as Claus Baade
  • Susanne Korda as Doris Lange
  • Narziss Sokatscheff[de] as Hermann Gueden
  • Ralf Gregan as Streckenwärter der ostzonalen Reichsbahn
  • Joe Hembus as Badegast im Strandbad Wannsee
  • Reinhold Timm as Vopo auf Motorrad
  • Wittigo von Einsiedel as Stasi-Scherge mit Spitzbart

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. Routledge, 2002.
  • Rother, Rainer (ed.) German Film: From the Archives of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2024.

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