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Funeral in Berlin (1966)

Funeral in Berlin poster
Directed by
Guy Hamilton
Genre
spy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 165 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

British spy Harry Palmer is sent to Berlin to help a Soviet defector. He finds the mission might be more complicated than it seems.

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What happens

Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film directed by Guy Hamilton and based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine as the character Harry Palmer that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File (1965). The third film was Billion Dollar Brain (1967). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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