Berlin Escape Artists
MovieTitle | Berlin - oder: Die Kunst der Flucht |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Oct 5, 2019 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Jean Bergeron |
Production country | Canada, France, Germany |
Production companies | Flair Productions, Alpha-Zoulou Films, ZDF/Arte, France Télévisions, Radio Canada Productions |
Run time | 53 min. |
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.