Judgment in Berlin (film)

Based on the Cold War true story of three East Berlin men who hijacked a plane to escape to the West. After being caught, they stand trial in Germany, where an American judge must decide if the political circumstances and economic hardships of life in the German Democratic Republic justified the hijacking of a plane into West Berlin. ==Cast==

Listed in credits order: • Martin Sheen as Herbert J Stern: US federal judge • Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Hellring: defence attorney • Max Gail as Judah Best: defence attorney • Jurgen Heinrich as Uri Andreyev: Soviet official • Heinz Hoenig as Helmut Thiele: hijacker • Carl Lumbly as Edwin Palmer: US State Dept prosecutor • Max Volkert Martens as Hans Schuster: electrical engineer • Cristine Rose as Marsha Stern: wife of Herbert • Marie-Louise Sinclair as Kim Becker: West German legal counsel • Joshua Sinclair as Alan Sherman: US State Dept prosecutor • Jutta Speidel as Sigrid Radke: waitress • Harris Yulin as Bruno Ristau: US Dept. of Justice official • Sean Penn as Guenther X: refugee • Burt Nelson as Patrick J. Heller: Colonel USAF • Malgorzata Gebel as Beata Levandovska: flight attendant (as Malgoscha Gebel) • Ed Bishop as Dyson Wilde: US State Dept. official == See also ==