Year: 2022
Country: UK
Category: Documentary
RT: 91 mins
Rating: N/A
Director: Justin Stokes
Writer: Ray Battersby, Justin Stokes
Producer: Ian Berg, Daniel Carter, Reynold D’Silva, Nicola Dempsey, Herbert Kloiber, Helen Langridge, Abid Majid, Olivia Pahl, Simon Ratigan, Olivia Sims, Justin Stokes, Nick Taussig, Paul Van Carter, Mike Wells, Annabel Wigoder
Cast: Aliona Baranova: Gerda Degner
Alan Wai: (Role not specified)
Jimmy Matsumiya: Self – Interviewee
James G. Nunn: (Role not specified)
Ernst Degner: (Role not specified)
Andrew Fettes: Walter Kaaden
Murray Walker: Self – Interviewee
Anna Funder: Self – Interviewee
Tommy Robb: Self – Interviewee
Olaf Degner: Self – Interviewee
Rita Perris: Self – Interviewee
Christian Steiner: Self – Interviewee
Norbert Kaaden: Self – Interviewee
Lothar Reese: Self – Interviewee
Hugh Anderson: Self – Interviewee (as Hugh Anderson MBE)
James Matsumiya: Self – Interviewee
Stromhardt Kraft: Self – Interviewee
Synopsis: The story of East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner, who, at the height of the Cold War and on the cusp of achieving his life ambition to win the world championship, fled East Germany with his family in a heart-stopping escape.