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Judgment in Berlin is a 1988 American drama film directed and written by Leo Penn, produced by Joshua Sinclair, who also co-wrote the film and acted in it, and Ingrid Windisch and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Wanamaker and Sean Penn, the director's son. It is based on the book Judgment in Berlin by Herbert J. Stern.
It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location around the city.
Synopsis
Based on the Cold War true story of three East Berlin men who hijack a plane to escape to the West. After being caught, they stand trial in Germany, where an American judge must decide if the hijacking of a plane into West Berlin was justified by the political circumstances and economic hardships of life in the German Democratic Republic.
Cast
Listed in credits order:
Martin Sheen as Herbert J Stern: US federal judge
Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Hellring: defence attorney
Max Gail as Judah Best: defence attorney
Jürgen Heinrich as Uri Andreyev: Soviet official
Heinz Hoenig as Helmut Thiele: hijacker
Carl Lumbly as Edwin Palmer: US State Dept prosecutor
Max Volkert Martens as Hans Schuster: electrical engineer
Cristine Rose as Marsha Stern: wife of Herbert
Marie-Louise Sinclair as Kim Becker: West German legal counsel
Joshua Sinclair as Alan Sherman: US State Dept prosecutor
Jutta Speidel as Sigrid Radke: waitress
Harris Yulin as Bruno Ristau: US Dept. of Justice official
Sean Penn as Guenther X: refugee
Burt Nelson as Patrick J. Heller: Colonel USAF
Malgorzata Gebel as Beata Levandovska: flight attendant (as Malgoscha Gebel)
Ed Bishop as Dyson Wilde: US State Dept. official
See also
Judgment in Berlin, 1984 book on which the film is based
References
External links
Judgment in Berlin at IMDb
Judgment in Berlin at Box Office Mojo
Judgment in Berlin at Rotten Tomatoes
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