Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is back and Colonel Ross has sent him to Berlin.
Palmer needs to arrange the defection of Soviet intelligence officer Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka) from East Berlin but Palmer is sceptical if the defection is genuine.
Palmer meets an old contact in Berlin Johnny Vulkan to set the wheel in motions. Criminal Otto Kreutzmann is the goto man for defections from East Berlin and he will bring over Stok by arranging a funeral.
In Berlin, Palmer also gets involved with a Mossad spy Samantha Steel who is after a former Nazi called Paul Louis Broum. Indeed Kreutzmann's people also want documents pertaining to Broum and Ross has them. Palmer brings them over to Berlin when Stok's defection is set into motion.
Funeral in Berlin benefits from authentic location shooting in Berlin. There is some sure footed direction by Guy Hamilton who made the Bond movie Goldfinger.
However this is a typical spy story of the era which gets quickly convoluted as everyone has different motives. There are just too many double crosses but Palmer tries to stay one step ahead even trying to keep a grip with his humanity when Ross orders him to do a hit.
This is not quiet as good as The Ipcress File but is better than Billion Dollar Brain. There is a fun performance from Oskar Homolka who looked a little like the then Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.
Palmer needs to arrange the defection of Soviet intelligence officer Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka) from East Berlin but Palmer is sceptical if the defection is genuine.
Palmer meets an old contact in Berlin Johnny Vulkan to set the wheel in motions. Criminal Otto Kreutzmann is the goto man for defections from East Berlin and he will bring over Stok by arranging a funeral.
In Berlin, Palmer also gets involved with a Mossad spy Samantha Steel who is after a former Nazi called Paul Louis Broum. Indeed Kreutzmann's people also want documents pertaining to Broum and Ross has them. Palmer brings them over to Berlin when Stok's defection is set into motion.
Funeral in Berlin benefits from authentic location shooting in Berlin. There is some sure footed direction by Guy Hamilton who made the Bond movie Goldfinger.
However this is a typical spy story of the era which gets quickly convoluted as everyone has different motives. There are just too many double crosses but Palmer tries to stay one step ahead even trying to keep a grip with his humanity when Ross orders him to do a hit.
This is not quiet as good as The Ipcress File but is better than Billion Dollar Brain. There is a fun performance from Oskar Homolka who looked a little like the then Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev.