This movie has just been shown on TV. It not only gives you a good impression on the tunnel project itself and the escape of a number of people from the former east Germany. It also shows you how the mood of the population at that time (1962) was, especially the mood of the students protesting against the wall. This film is based on a true story, the one of the "Tunnel 29". 29 stands for the number of people who were able to escape through this tunnel. There is only one scene I did not like that much. Harry Melchior (the leading role) runs through the tunnel right after he held up the colonel who now tries to catch him together with his fellow men. Somewhere in the tunnel there is a sign "You are now entering the French section of Berlin". The colonel and all the others do right stop exactly below this sign and Harry Melchior even salutes him from the "west side" of Berlin. I think this is not quite real, because the colonel certainly would not bother to cross the border inside the tunnel, or would he? Nevertheless a good movie, it is worth spending the time to watch it.
Review of The Tunnel
