Key Details

Release StatusReleased

Release Date1989-01-19

Languagede

Runtime1h 51m

Production

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

4.6(5)

•1989•1h 51m

The Break

Crime Comedy

Overview

A story about massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946.

Director

Frank Beyer

Writing & Screenplay

Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Cinematography

Peter Ziesche

Principal Cast

23 credited

Götz GeorgeWalter Graf

Rolf HoppeBruno Markward

Otto SanderErwin Lubowitz

Ulrike KrumbiegelTina

Volker RanischJulian

Hermann BeyerKollmorgen

Jens-Uwe BogadtkeBiegel

Thomas RudnickBubi

Gerhard HähndelLotz

Heinz-Dieter KnaupEscheritz

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