A Hero's Death
8 August 2001| 50 min
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.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
Rainer Albertz
Michael Baade
Egon Bahr
Nadine Beyer
Günter Bohnsack
Johannes Fröhner
Regine Hildebrandt
Hubert Hohlbein
Hagen Koch
Thomas Mauch
Siegfried Mechler
Joachim Neumann
Ludwig A. Rehlinger
Jürgen Schreiber
Walter Venedey
Hermann von Berg
Hartmut Wolter
