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The Tunnel
Directed by
Roland Suso Richter
Not Rated
2001
2h 30m
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7.7
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Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
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Cast of The Tunnel
Heino Ferch
Harry Melchior
Nicolette Krebitz
Friederike " Fritzi " Scholz
Sebastian Koch
Matthis Hiller
Alexandra Maria Lara
Lotte Lohmann
Claudia Michelsen
Carola Hiller
Felix Eitner
Fred von Klausnitz
Mehmet Kurtuluş
Vittorio Castanza
Heinrich Schmieder
Theo Lohmann
Uwe Kockisch
Oberst Krüger
Karin Baal
Marianne von Krausnitz
Dorothea Moritz
Hermine
Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger
Fotograf Grüner
Florian Panzner
Heiner
Sarah Kubel
Ina Lohmann
Ruth Glöss
Mutter Fritzi
Wilfried Hochholdinger
Bellofs
Christine Harbort
Frau Meckel
Wilhelm Manske
Kaderführer
Hans Nitschke
Trainer Harry
Roland Suso Richter
Director
The Tunnel Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Richter makes wonderful if obvious use of the wall and the tunnel as built-in metaphors for our struggle for human connection and dread of helplessness and change.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Well-cast and sporadically gripping.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It is the kind of superbly crafted, intelligent entertainment -- a classic suspense thriller -- that nowadays is as welcome as it is rare.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Richter gives a raw, frank but sophisticated account of the excruciating logistics of this great escape, and the appalling, inspiring blend of betrayal and courage that attended the group's herculean efforts.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
A true story few people will know, and it's told with a warm, crafty efficiency that makes for wonderful entertainment.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's a gripping great-escape yarn of the sort we don't see much anymore.
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
The Tunnel proved to be too exciting for mere broadcast
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Either as history at its most inspiring or moviemaking at its most exciting, The Tunnel is a trip.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's so well told that you'll be biting your nails until the film's final few minutes.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
There are few moments when you're not totally absorbed by the film.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Overlong and a bit overcooked...but it's also properly grueling.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Based on a true story from the late 1950s, this thrilling drama looks at the extraordinary lengths taken by a group of West Berliners to dig a tunnel under the city's barbed-wire border with East Berlin.
Filmcritic.com
Jules Brenner
riddled with slow pacing, melodrama and viewer fatigue
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Director Roland Suso Richter maintains tension for 2 1/2 hours, even though the resolution is almost surreal.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Richter's brisk direction keeps us riveted through the suspenseful finish of his vivid history lesson.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Genuinely gripping, balancing the travails of constructing the tunnel against the characters' stories with considerable skill.
New York Times
Laura Kern
Roland Suso Richter's darkly atmospheric film recounts the effort of a group of people to dig a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
Village Voice
Matt Singer
It's distressing to learn how much German television looks like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Meg Jones
The film picks up steam as the tunnel nears completion -- thanks, in part, to a Hollywood film crew that pays for the rights to the tunnelers' story, providing them with the money to finish the project.
eye WEEKLY
Kim Linekin
Though its story is universal enough to leap across cultural boundaries, it's not deep enough to justify the leap to the big screen.
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