Funeral in Berlin

1966·102'

Guy Hamilton

Thriller

★ 6.4

Letterboxd TMDB #34388

It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.

Cast

Michael Caine Harry Palmer

Paul Hubschmid Johnnie Vulkan

Oskar Homolka Colonel Stok

Eva Renzi Samantha Steel

Guy Doleman Ross

Hugh Burden Hallam

Heinz Schubert Aaron Levine

Wolfgang Völz Werner

Thomas Holtzmann Reinhardt

Günter Meisner Kreutzman

Herbert Fux Artur

Rainer Brandt Benjamin