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August 13, 1961: The GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escaping to the West becomes more dangerous by the day. But on 14 September 1962, exactly one year, one month and one day after the Wall was built, a group of 29 people from the GDR managed a spectacular escape to the West through a 135-metre-long tunnel. For more than four months, students from West Berlin, including two Italians, painstakingly built this tunnel. They risked their lives – for friends, relatives, lovers and political ideals.