Escape to Berlin

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 . 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
• 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

References

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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