The Tunnel
(2001)
★ 7.2 IMDb · 118 votes
Year: 2001
Runtime: 150 мин
Country: Germany
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Cast: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch, Александра Мария Лара, Claudia Michelsen, Felix Eitner, Мехмет Куртулуш, Heinrich Schmieder, Uwe Kockisch, Karin Baal
Plot
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.
Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. On his own escape, he is determined the arrange the escape to the West of his sister and her family. The idea of the tunnel is born, but the project does not run smoothly. The participants struggle not only with the massive logistics of their task, but betrayal from friends in the East. And always the East German police are close to discovering the plot.