Funeral in Berlin (1966) | |
| Director(s) | Guy Hamilton |
| Producer(s) | Harry Saltzman (executive) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Spies |
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Funeral in Berlin (1966) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Guy Hamilton and produced by Harry Saltzman.
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Michael Caine Attends a Funeral in Berlin
By Rick29 on Mar 13, 2018 From Classic Film & TV CafeIn this 1966 follow-up to the previous year's Ipcress File, Michael Caine returns as Cockney thief-turned-spy Harry Palmer. The bespectacled Palmer still works for British intelligence and he's gotten a promotion. The bad news is that he remains on a suspended prison sentence and needs an interest-f... Read full article
Michael Caine Attends a Funeral in Berlin
By Rick29 on Mar 13, 2018 From Classic Film & TV CafeIn this 1966 follow-up to the previous year's Ipcress File, Michael Caine returns as Cockney thief-turned-spy Harry Palmer. The bespectacled Palmer still works for British intelligence and he's gotten a promotion. The bad news is that he remains on a suspended prison sentence and needs an interest-f... Read full article
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
By Brandy Dean on Oct 28, 2013 From Pretty Clever FilmsThe global success of the James Bond franchise spawned a million imitators, ranging from the sublime to the silly. The Harry Palmer trilogy, featuring The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin,?and?Billion Dollar Brain,?were arguably the best of the lot and a close runner-up to Bond himself. Michael Caine... Read full article
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film BlogEx-con turned British spy Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to Berlin on a mission. He must find Soviet intelligence officer in charge of the Berlin Wall, Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka) and make him defect from his position. Palmer is tasked to concoct an elaborate escape out of Berlin for Stok wit... Read full article
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film BlogEx-con turned British spy Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to Berlin on a mission. He must find Soviet intelligence officer in charge of the Berlin Wall, Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka) and make him defect from his position. Palmer is tasked to concoct an elaborate escape out of Berlin for Stok wit... Read full article
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Colonel Stok: And for you it is a propaganda victory - my name is worth a headline.
Harry Palmer: We get plenty of Russians. It's a pity you're not Chinese.
Harry Palmer: I'm sorry, I just don'f feel like an Edmund Duff.
Colonel Stok: I wish to defect, but there are conditions.
Harry Palmer: What do you want?
Colonel Stok: I want colonel's pay for life.
Harry Palmer: Don't we all.
Colonel Stok: A house in the country.
Harry Palmer: Oh, how many bedrooms?
Colonel Stok: Bedrooms do not matter. But I must have a big garden. I am a peasant at heart, and I want to grow roses in my old age.
Harry Palmer: In England, roses are out - weeds are in. Is that all?
Colonel Stok: That is all. I want comfort and security.
Harry Palmer: You've got all that in Russia now.
Colonel Stok: Aah, in Russia there is no place for an old Bolshevik. In my job I have made too many enemies.
Harry Palmer: Well, what about your family?
Colonel Stok: My wife died in a German air raid in 1941; my only son hasn't written to me in three years. What would you do in my position?
Harry Palmer: I'd stop telling lies, for a start. You have no son, and your wife is in Kiev with your daughter Katya. I know everything about you, Colonel Stok... from the size of your refrigerator to the cubic capacity of your mistress.
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Facts about
Trade screened to exhibitors on 15 November 1966.
Anjanette Comer was originally cast as Samantha Steel and even appeared in the publicity stills. But due to illness Comer had to back out and Eva Renzi ended up the role.
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