

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.
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Cast

Heino Ferch
Harry Melchior

Nicolette Krebitz
Friederike " Fritzi " Scholz

Sebastian Koch
Matthis Hiller

Alexandra Maria Lara
Lotte Lohmann

Claudia Michelsen
Carola Hiller

Felix Eitner
Fred von Klausnitz

Mehmet Kurtuluş
Vittorio Castanza

Heinrich Schmieder
Theo Lohmann

Uwe Kockisch
Oberst Krüger

Karin Baal
Marianne von Krausnitz
Dorothea Moritz
Hermine

Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
Fotograf Grüner
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