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Funeral in Berlin
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.
1966 · Directed by Guy Hamilton · 102 min · Thriller · 9 frames
Tagline
It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …
Crew
- Screenplay: Evan Jones
- Cinematography: Otto Heller
- Edited by: John Bloom
- Music: Konrad Elfers
- Production design: Ken Adam
- Produced by: Charles D. Kasher
Cast
- Michael Caine as Harry Palmer
- Paul Hubschmid as Johnnie Vulkan
- Oskar Homolka as Colonel Stok
- Eva Renzi as Samantha Steel
- Guy Doleman as Ross
- Hugh Burden as Hallam
- Heinz Schubert as Aaron Levine
- Wolfgang Völz as Werner
- Thomas Holtzmann as Reinhardt
- Günter Meisner as Kreutzman
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: German, English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Lowndes Productions Limited
- Themes: berlin, germany, england, berlin wall, spy, cold war, secret intelligence service, defection, swinging 60s, east germany, harry palmer
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