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* CheckpointCharlie: The defector gets smuggled by faking his death and being taken across the Berlin Wall in a coffin. The idea has been reused several times, such as in the TV series ''Series/JasonKing'' and ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''.
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* CheckpointCharlie: The defector gets smuggled by faking his death and being taken across the Berlin Wall in version. [[spoiler:The whole thing is a coffin. The idea has been reused several times, such as in Soviet setup to catch the TV series ''Series/JasonKing'' and ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''.
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* GambitPileup: British Intelligence, a Russian General, Mossad and a Nazi war criminal are all trying to stay a step ahead of each other. [[spoiler:Harry Palmer, the supposed UnwittingPawn to everyone involved, was actually ahead of them from quite early on.]]
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The funeral happens at the halfway point of the film - [[spoiler: the rest of the film deals with the revelation that Vulkan is the mysterious ex-Nazi Broum, and his conflict with the Israelis.]]
* GambitPileup: British Intelligence, a Russian General, Mossad and a Nazi war criminal are all trying to stay a step ahead of each other. [[spoiler:Harry Palmer, the supposed UnwittingPawn to everyone involved, was actually ahead of them from quite early on.]]
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The funeral happens at the halfway point of the film - [[spoiler: the rest of the film deals with the revelation that Vulkan is the mysterious ex-Nazi Broum, and his conflict with the Israelis.]]
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The eponymous funeral happens at the halfway point of the
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Harry Palmer is picked up by a beautiful young woman - who is later revealed to be an Israeli agent - in a West Berlin bar and invited back to her flat. He goes along with it but is not convinced for a moment that her motives are genuine, telling his German contact that "she picked me up last night, and - with my irresistible charm - I want to know why, and who she's working for." Despite his suspicions, she still manages to distract him long enough for her associates to search his hotel room.
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Harry Palmer is picked up by a beautiful young woman - who is later revealed to be an Israeli agent - in a West Berlin bar and invited back to her flat. He goes along with it but is not convinced for a moment that her motives are genuine, telling his German contact that "she picked me up last night, and - with my irresistible charm - I want to know why, and who she's working for." Despite his suspicions, she still manages to distract him long enough for her associates to search his hotel room.
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* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Harry Palmer is picked up by a beautiful young woman
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* SavedByTheCoffin: This is supposed to be the method by which an East German defector is to be smuggled to the west; but the whole thing is a Soviet setup to catch the ones who smuggle out defectors.
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* SavedByTheCoffin: This is supposed to be the method by which an East German The defector is to be gets smuggled to by faking his death and being taken across the west; but Berlin Wall in a coffin. The idea has been reused several times, such as in the whole thing is a Soviet setup to catch the ones who smuggle out defectors.TV series ''Series/JasonKing'' and ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''.
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''Funeral in Berlin'' is a 1966 film directed by Creator/GuyHamilton, based on the [[SpyFiction spy novel]] by Creator/LenDeighton. It is the second of the Film/HarryPalmer series starring Creator/MichaelCaine, following ''Film/TheIPCRESSFile'' and itself followed by ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''.
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''Funeral in Berlin'' is a 1966 film directed by Creator/GuyHamilton, based on the [[SpyFiction spy novel]] by Creator/LenDeighton. It is the second of the Film/HarryPalmer series starring Creator/MichaelCaine, following ''Film/TheIPCRESSFile'' ''Film/TheIpcressFile'' and itself followed by ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/funeral_in_berlin_film_poster.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[DefectorFromCommieLand "I wish to defect. But there are... conditions."]]'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[DefectorFromCommieLand "I wish to defect. But there are... conditions."]]'']]
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* CompositeCharacter: In the novel, the defector is a scientist named Semitsa, and Colonel Stok is a KGB double-agent facilitating the defection. The two characters are combined in the film.
