The Tunnel
by Roland Suso Richter
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Actor: Alexandra Maria Lara, Claudia Michelsen, Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian KochDirector: Roland Suso Richter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 167 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of The Tunnel
Movie Review: The Tunnel, time capsule
Summary: 4 Stars
This was as though I had taken a time machine back to when the Berlin Wall was just being built in 1961. Now if you have a problem with subtitles be advised this is how you find out what they are talking about if you don't know German. I found it interesting as I have seen other films in black & white like "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" back around the time the wall first went up and a few years after. This is wonderfully created new color film about a championship swimmer from East German Republic or GDR, getting out on forged papers and then planning an escape for his sister and others and enlisting his friends help to dig a tunnel from West Berlin to East Berlin. Quite an immense job, especially with the highly suspicious police in East Berlin. A must see for anyone that enjoys a good drama or wants to know what it was like before Germany tore down the Berlin Wall. I highly recommend it. Good quality DVD and replayability. - C. Luster
Summary of The Tunnel
Anti-communist East German swimming champion Harry Melchior (Heino Ferch) narrowly escapes the Communist regime just after the Berlin Wall is completed, and is determined to rescue his beloved sister, whom he was forced to leave behind.A gripping escape plan provides the narrative spine to The Tunnel, an exciting Cold War story. This film fictionalizes the true story of the digging of a 430-foot tunnel running under the Berlin Wall in 1964, as tunnel rats on the west side labor to find a way out for friends and family in the Communist East. The principals are led by a famous German swimmer (the excellent Heino Ferch, sort of the German Bruce Willis), whose sister is trapped in East Berlin. Juicy characters abound, including some compromised East Berliners and unlikely heroes on the West side. Also incorporated into this story is an American TV news crew shooting the digging as it goes along. Director Roland Suso Richter shot The Tunnel for television and if it is somewhat artless, it still grabs the viewer in irresistible suspense--and sustains the tension for 167 minutes. Like its heroes, this film is dogged and emotionally committed. --Robert Horton
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