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Release Date: 1966

Cast: Eva Renzi, Marthe Keller, Hugh Burden, Oscar Homolka, Michael Caine, Guy Doleman, Paul Hubschmid

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Drama Film, Action/Adventure, World Cinema, Action, Spy, Political Thriller

Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film based on the novel Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965). The third film, made in 1967 was Billion Dollar Brain. Caine would reprise the role of Harry Palmer three decades later for Bullet to Beijing and Midnight in Saint Petersburg. Berlin in the 1960s is a city divided between Cold War lines with inhabitants of the Communist East trying to escape to the West. Even with the infamous Berlin Wall these escapes are... MORE

Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film based on the novel Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965). The third film, made in 1967 was Billion Dollar Brain. Caine would reprise the role of Harry Palmer three decades later for Bullet to Beijing and Midnight in Saint Petersburg. Berlin in the 1960s is a city divided between Cold War lines with inhabitants of the Communist East trying to escape to the West. Even with the infamous Berlin Wall these escapes are common and successful. Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka), the head of intelligence in the Soviet Union's Berlin section and the one responsible for preventing escapes over the Wall, contacts British Intelligence and informs them that he wants to defect to the West. Secret agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to West Berlin to find out if Stok's offer is genuine and arrange his escape. Palmer was once involved in black market dealings in Berlin and was given the choice of joining British Intelligence or going to jail. Returning to the city, he is re-united with his old associate, German national LESS