Escape from East Berlin

Escape from East Berlin

Escape from East Berlin is a 1962 film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Don Murray. The story takes place in East Berlin soon after the Berlin Wall is built, and is based on an actual escape on January 28, 1962. Kurt Schröder is a chauffeur to East German Major Eckhardt and his seductive wife Heidi, and lives within sight of the Wall. Kurt is having an affair with Heidi. One night he sees a friend, Günther Jurgens, who works at the garage where Kurt has the Major's car maintained, drive his truck into the wall, and get killed trying to escape to the west. Günther's...
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Release date:October 22, 1962
Directed by:Robert Siodmak
Runtime:89 Minutes
Editor:Maurice Wright

Cast of Escape from East Berlin

Don Murray
Don Murray
Born:July 31, 1929
Age:82

Film director of Escape from East Berlin

Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak
Born: August 8, 1900
Died: March 10, 1973

Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s. Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine and Ignatz Siodmak. His parents were both from Jewish families...
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