The Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
EPILOGUE: "On August 13, 1981 the Berlin Wall will be twenty years old."
Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981) is a made-for-TV movie about a former American officer leading an attempt to build a tunnel underneath The Wall as a rescue route.
This dramatization, Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981), by the ubiquitous John Gay of Donald Lindquist's book set in Cold War Berlin has Richard Thomas, as an ex-U.S. Army officer spearheading a plan by five Germans to rescue their loved ones from East Berlin just after the wall went up in 1961. Horst Buchholz is a structural engineer who supervises the building of the tunnel.