Movie

Berlin Tunnel 21

Released: March 25, 1981 (1981)

Runtime: 141 minutes

Genres: Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

José Ferrer as Martin Komansky
Age at release: 69
Robert Freitag as Dr. Lentz
Age at release: 64
Kenneth Griffith as Bruno Balderbach
Age at release: 59
Horst Buchholz as Emerich Weber
Age at release: 47
Richard Thomas as Sandy Mueller
Age at release: 29
Nicholas Farrell as Georg Heptner
Age at release: 26
Ute Christensen as Ilse Morrell
Age at release: 25
Jacques Breuer as Joachim Lentz
Age at release: 24
Ilse Bahrs as Butcher Customer
Age at release: Unknown
Pasqual Breuer as Wolf Lentz
Age at release: Unknown

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John F. Kennedy as Self - US President (archive footage)
Age at release: 63
Heinz Weiss as Herr Heptner
Age at release: 59
Carl Duering as Klaus Schoenemann
Age at release: 57
Charlotte Kerr as Marta Kurzman
Age at release: 53
Eva Ingeborg Scholz as Frau Lentz
Age at release: 53
Walter Tschernich as Herr Dohr
Age at release: 51
Peter Neusser as Lt. Geller
Age at release: 48
Dorothea Moritz as Frau Heptner
Age at release: 46
Klaus Götte as Intelligence Officer
Age at release: 44
Joachim Mock as Workman
Age at release: 44
Günther Maria Halmer as Herr Klemnitz
Age at release: 38
Uwe Paulsen as Karl
Age at release: 36
Jochen Schroeder as Vopo
Age at release: 27
Katharina Seyferth as Greta Dohr
Age at release: 23
Josef Ernst as German Border Guard
Age at release: Unknown
Irene Jarosch as Woman in Crowd
Age at release: Unknown
Wolfgang Jörg as Konrad Moss
Age at release: Unknown
Hans Madin as Herr Weber
Age at release: Unknown
Georg Richard Wenkhaus as Vogel Chief Officer
Age at release: Unknown
Inge Wolfberg as Greta's Friend
Age at release: Unknown