Berlin Escape Artists

movie

An ideological and physical barrier fell on 9 November 1989 in Berlin. For 28 years, this 155 km wall divided Germany in two, separating friends and family. The recent discovery of some documents reveals the stories of those who managed to escape to join their loved ones, or simply to regain their freedom. Demonstrating imagination and courage, some dug tunnels to get under the Berlin Wall, others inflated balloons to fly over it, while others disguised themselves with fake uniforms. By combining archives, reconstitution sequences and intrigue scenes, this documentary plunges us into a Berlin that has now disappeared, through the prism of the art of escape under the GDR.

Cast & crew

Ilia Devedziev · Anton Dimitrachkov · Boris Grigorov · Jean Bergeron · Alexandra Radicheva · Asen Nikolov · Jordan Chichikov · Patrick Massett · Mila Bancheva · Krum Berkov · Lyubomir Kanev · Georgi Naldzhiev

Studios & networks

Alpha-Zoulou Films · Flair Productions · France Télévisions · Radio Canada Productions · ZDF/Arte