Escape from East Berlin
Escape from East Berlin is a 1962 American- West German thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann and Werner Klemperer.
It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Dieter Bartels and Ted Haworth.
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States.
He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as "The Killers" (1946).
A Place in the Sun
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East Berlin Railroad
The East Berlin Railroad was a short line that operated in Adams County, Pennsylvania, principally handling agricultural traffic.
The railroad was originally incorporated as the Berlin Branch Railroad on March 3, 1876.
It was built from Berlin Junction on the Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad north seven miles to East Berlin, opening in May 1877.
The railroad was initially operated by the HJH&G, which came under the control of the Western Maryland Railway in 1886.
The company was reorganized as the East Berlin Railway on July 9, 1903 and began operating as an independent railroad.
On July 18, 1914, the railroad was foreclosed on, and reorganized as the East Berlin Railroad on September 8, 1914.
Operations ceased the day after, and the rails were removed from East Berlin south to Abbottstown.
Threatened with the loss of its charter, work resumed on the railroad in 1916; track was re-laid into East Berlin, and the line went back into operation on May 27, 1916.
The East Berlin bought a gasoline railcar in 1929.
Operations again ceased on November 15, 1939 and the whole railroad was scrapped in 1940.
A Place in the Sun (film)
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel" An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled" An American Tragedy".
It tells the story of a working- class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite.
Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as" An American Tragedy", in 1931.
" A Place in the Sun" was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters; its supporting actors included Anne Revere, and Raymond Burr.
The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first- ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
In 1991," A Place in the Sun" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Chris Gueffroy
Chris Gueffroy( 21 June 1968 – 6 February 1989) was the last person to be shot and the second- last to die in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall.
George Stevens
George Cooper Stevens( December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Among his most notable films are" A Place in the Sun"( 1951; winner of six Academy Awards including Best Director)," Shane"( 1953; Oscar nominated)," Giant"( 1956; Oscar for Best Director), and" The Diary of Anne Frank"( 1959; nominated for Best Director).
Christian-Peter Friese
Christian- Peter Friese( August 5, 1948, Munich- December 25, 1970, East Berlin) was one of the victims at the Berlin Wall.
Members of the Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic shot him while trying to escape from East Germany.
Escape from the City
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Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.

Question: Are both directors of films Escape From East Berlin and A Place In The Sun (Film) from the same country?
Answer: yes