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 .Bock & Bergfelder p. 479Hake p. 105 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.Rother p. 477
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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