Paramount Pictures
Harry Palmer Collection
Funeral in Berlin
It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
- Original title
- Funeral in Berlin
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
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- Revenue
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SmarterLabels
Jul 9, 2023 · via TMDB
This almost shocked me. I have watched this film a number of times over the years, and really considered it a somewhat poorer sequel to the exploits of Harry Palmer as first seen in The Ipcress File. Well, I watched it again one day after when I was well rested (and a little bit bored). The thing is that I was concentrating on every little event or nuance that I was picking up. And lo and behold a whole new level of intrigue emerged. I had only ever previously glossed over the surface, picking up the salient features of the plot. But the deeper layer is sooo much more interesting. You need to take your time and look for it though. Start considering the motivations behind the things people say and do, and whether you are quite sure who was behind them, and who was working for who at the time. There are a lot of unstated goings on under the surface that explain seemingly small details that actually give the game away if you stop to think about them. Of course, if you are super bright and really on the ball, you may pick up this deeper level of intrigue at first viewing. Sadly I did not; - or is that happily, since when I did eventually pick it up it was like watching a whole new (and far more satisfying) movie.
CinemaSerf
Jun 29, 2022 · via TMDB
Michael Caine reprises his role as the rather curmudgeonly, stoic, "Harry Palmer" in this rather lacklustre tale of Cold War espionage. He is given the task of travelling to East Berlin to help facilitate the defection of "Col. Stok" (the scene-stealing Oskar Homolka), who has for years been in charge of stopping folks escaping from the East heading West - but with increasingly limited success! Pretty quickly, "Palmer" smells a rat. Well, actually, he smells a whole sewer of them and has no idea whom to trust as this really rather pedestrian story plods along. Caine is fine, but we see too little of Homolka and the rest of the cast add very little to this really un-menacing thriller. The infamous Berlin Wall seems to offer very little by way of impediment to anyone's movements around the city, and the longer the film went on the less I really bothered about the fairly obvious outcome. It's really only a film for fans of the star, this - and is simply not a patch on the "Ipcress File" (1965).
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Michael Caine
Harry Palmer
Paul Hubschmid
Johnnie Vulkan
Oskar Homolka
Colonel Stok
Eva Renzi
Samantha Steel
Guy Doleman
Ross
Hugh Burden
Hallam
Heinz Schubert
Aaron Levine
Wolfgang Völz
Werner
Thomas Holtzmann
Reinhardt
Günter Meisner
Kreutzman
Herbert Fux
Artur
Rainer Brandt
Benjamin
Rachel Gurney
Mrs. Ross
John Abineri
Rukel
Sarah Brackett
Babcock
Freda Bamford
Alice (uncredited)
Ursula Heyer
Bar Girl (uncredited)
Marthe Keller
Brigit (uncredited)
Edward Meeks
East German Guard (uncredited)
Ken Adam
Production Design
Otto Heller
Director of Photography
Guy Hamilton
Director
Peter Medak
Second Unit Director
Harry Saltzman
Executive Producer
Harry Rabinowitz
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Len Deighton
Novel
Evan Jones
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Dec 22, 1966
