Christopher Eccleston joins WHISPERS OF FREEDOM, which tells the tragic true story of an attempted escape from East Berlin

Christopher Eccleston joins WHISPERS OF FREEDOM, which tells the tragic true story of an attempted escape from East Berlin

Whispers of Freedom is a film project that recently wrapped production in Berlin, and it has been announced that Christopher Eccleston (Thor: The Dark World, Doctor Who) AND Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A real deal) were chosen for the film.

This film tells the tragic true story of the last escape attempt from East Berlin. The story is set in the 1980s and follows “young East German Chris Gueffroy in the run-up to his attempted escape from the isolated Eastern Bloc state.

Gueffroy was “the last person to be shot and the second to last to die in an escape attempt as he tried to flee westward across the Berlin Wall.”

The film is written and directed by Brandon Ashplant the rest of the cast includes Cameron Ashplant (The last bus) like Chris Gueffroy, Wendy McKenna (Act of sisterhood) like Karin Gueffroy, Darragh Cowley (The masters of the air) like Christian Gaudian, and Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark) like Erich Honecker.

It is explained that several German historians, authors and institutions collaborated in the making of this film as historical consultants, to ensure that the story told is accurate.

Source: Deadline

by Joey Fear
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