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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 Cafe

In 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 Cafe

In 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 Films

The 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 Blog

Ex-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 Blog

Ex-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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Harry Palmer: She picked me up last night, and - with my irrestible charm - I want to know why, and who she's working for.


Harry Palmer: I'm sorry, I just don'f feel like an Edmund Duff.


Harry Palmer: Oh, by the way, is old Klaus Burger still alive?
Police officer: The forger?
Harry Palmer: Yeah, the forger.
Police officer: I'd like to run you out of Berlin, Palmer! You and MI5 and the Deuxième Bureau and the CIA and the rest of them. Then I can do my job instead of providing work for every forger, confidence man, thief, and murderer in this town!
Harry Palmer: Oh, I agree, I agree, I agree. But... is old man Klaus still alive?


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Facts about

Russian soldiers on the east side of the Berlin wall purposely disrupted filming by using mirrors to reflect sunlight into the film cameras. The scene where Harry Palmer walks to Checkpoint Charlie for the first time had to be filmed from a long distance for that reason.
Trade screened to exhibitors on 15 November 1966.
Average Shot Length = ~5.8 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.4 seconds.
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