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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780030428
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780030427
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 04, 2005
Running Time: 167 minutes
Sales Rank: 25391
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "We build too many walls and not enough bridges"
In August 13, 1961, the German Democratic Republic erected the Berlin Wall, closing the border between the communist and democratic parts, and demarcating East Berlin from West Berlin. In barely ten days, residents of East Berlin were barred from entering West Berlin and every escape route had been blocked. The film "The Tunnel (Der Tunnel)" depicts the story of Harry Melchior (played by an outstanding Heino Ferch), a swimming champ of the GDR, who fled to the West side and heroically came back ... Read More
Rating:  - The Tunnel, time capsule
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Good enough to watch
A good movie and interesting but I suggest that you get the Comedian Harmonist before you get this one. Also, Die Flucht is good too but careful, no subtitles on Die Flucht so know your German.
Rating: - Highly recommended
This is a wonderful film about a true story. The production is excellent, the drama unrelenting, and the characters believable. The good and the bad in humanity is demonstrated by the heroic determination of Harry and friends, as well as by the flawed, compromised, but ultimately redeemed Carola and Theo. Highly recommended. German with English subtitles. Note that there is some profanity and a non-explicit sex scene so parents should review the film to determine its suitability for their family. Great!
Rating: - freedom dig
In the 1960s there were dozens of tunnels dug underneath the Berlin Wall that was erected in August of 1961. This docu-drama tells the story of one of the first and more famous tunnels. Hasso Herschel (renamed Harry Melchior in the film) was a famous swimmer in East Germany who walked across Checkpoint Charlie in disguise and with a fake passport on August 26, 1961, just two weeks after the wall was built and he had become a national sports hero. Having spent four years in prison already, he had had enough. ... Read More
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