Overview
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Cast
- Heino Ferch as Harry Melchior
- Nicolette Krebitz as Friederike " Fritzi " Scholz
- Sebastian Koch as Matthis Hiller
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Lotte Lohmann
- Claudia Michelsen as Carola Hiller
- Felix Eitner as Fred von Klausnitz
- Mehmet Kurtuluş as Vittorio Castanza
- Heinrich Schmieder as Theo Lohmann
- Uwe Kockisch as Oberst Krüger
- Karin Baal as Marianne von Krausnitz