Tunnel to Freedom

13 August 1961 the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin The city is divided overnight Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day But on September 14 1962 exactly one year one month and one day after the Wall was built a group of 29 people from the GDR managed to escape spectacularly through a 135meter tunnel to the West For more than 4 months students from West Berlin including 2 Italians dug this tunnel When the tunnel builders ran out of money after only a few meters of digging they came up with the idea of marketing the escape tunnel They sell the film rights to the story exclusively to NBC an American television station