A Hero's Death
August 8, 2001
50m
Overview
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.
Director
Britta Wauer
Cast
Rainer Albertz
Himself
Michael Baade
Himself
Egon Bahr
Himself
Nadine Beyer
herself
