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Released
1981 · FILM

Berlin Tunnel 21

Five determined men attempt a daring rescue under the Berlin Wall.

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Runtime
141 min
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Synopsis

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer collaborate to construct a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall with the goal of smuggling refugees to safety, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Gregory PrangeShot by Igor LutherScored by Dana KaproffDesigned by Jan Schlubach

Also known as

  • Berlín: Tunel 21es

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