By Andreas Wiseman, Matt Grobar
Innocent Swedish girl is completely destroyed by small angry man
EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA nominee and Emmy winner Christopher Eccleston (Thor: The Dark World) and Thomas W. Gabrielsson (A Royal Affair) have completed the cast of Cold War biopic Whispers of Freedom as production wraps in Berlin.
The British-German co-production is set in East Berlin in the 1980s and is based on the tragic true story of young East German Chris Gueffroy as he attempts to escape the isolated Eastern Bloc state. Gueffroy was the last person to was shot and the second-to-last to die in an escape attempt when he tried to flee to the West over the Berlin Wall.
Eccleston, best known for his role as the ninth incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who and for his role as Malekith in Thor: The Dark World, joins the cast to lend his voice to the role of East German radio presenter Herbert Suitcase.
