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Funeral in Berlin
“It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …”
6.4 / 10• 1966• 1h 42m•NR• English
Thriller
Storyline
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 & Crew
Michael Caine
Harry Palmer
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Guy Hamilton's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Funeral in Berlin is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
