''The Tunnel'' (German: ''Der Tunnel'') is a 1933 French-German

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directed by

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and starring Paul Hartmann,

Attila Hörbiger Attila Hörbiger (21 April 1896 – 27 April 1987) was an Austrian stage and movie actor. Life Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger and the young ...

and Olly von Flint. The film was made by

Bavaria Film Bavaria Film is a German film production and film distribution, distribution company. It is one of Europe's largest film production companies, with some 30 subsidiaries. History The studios were founded in 1919, when Munich-raised film produc ...

, and shot at the company's

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. It is an adaptation of

Bernhard Kellermann Bernhard Kellermann (4 March 1879, Fürth, Kingdom of Bavaria – 17 October 1951) was a German author and poet. Life Bernhard Kellermann enrolled in 1899 at Technical University Munich initially in general studies, but later focused on G ...

's 1913 novel ''

Der Tunnel ''Der Tunnel'' is a made-for-television German film released in 2001 and loosely based on true events in Berlin following the closing of the East German border in August 1961 and the subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall. Roland Suso Rich ...

'' about the construction of a vast

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under the

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connecting Europe and America. It premiered at the Capitol Theatre in November 1933.Koepnick p.51 A separate French version was also produced. In 1935 the film was remade in Britain with the same title. The 1935 British film was released in the United States as ''

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''.

Cast

* Paul Hartmann as Mac Allen *

as Hobby * Olly von Flint as Mary Allen *

Gustaf Gründgens Gustaf Gründgens (; 22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg ...

as Mr. Woolf, tunnel syndicate director *

Otto Wernicke Otto Karl Robert Wernicke (30 September 1893, Osterode am Harz – 7 November 1965) was a German actor. He is best known for his role as police inspector Karl Lohmann in the two Fritz Lang films '' M'' and ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse''. Marrie ...

as Bärmann *

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as Mr. Lloyd, financier *

Elga Brink Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (née Brink, born Frey; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known professionally as Elga Brink, was a German film actress. Brink rose to prominence in the early 1920s, when she starred in many silent films. Her last sil ...

as Ethel Lloyd *

Richard Ryen Richard Ryen (13 September 1885 – 22 December 1965) was a Hungarian-born actor who was expelled from Germany by the Nazis prior to World War II. Early life Ryen was born Richard Anton Robert Felix Revy in Hungary. He began working in Germany a ...

as Gordon *

Georg Henrich Georg Henrich (9 September 1878 – 30 March 1934) was a German stage and film actor.Grange p.202 Selected filmography * '' The Fountain of Madness'' (1921) * ''The Way to the Light'' (1923) * ''Girls You Don't Marry'' (1924) * '' The Shot in the ...

as Vandrstyfft *

Max Schreck Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck Eickhoff, Stefan. 2007 (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936), Walk, Ines. 2006. known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film ' ...

as Chesterfield *

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as Miss Brown *

Will Dohm Will Dohm (8 April 1897 – 28 November 1948) was a German film actor. He is the father of the actress Gaby Dohm. Selected filmography * '' Waterloo'' (1929) * '' Cruiser Emden'' (1932) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1932) * '' The Tunnel ...

as Brooce *

Ferdinand Marian Ferdinand Heinrich Johann Haschkowetz (14 August 1902 – 7 August 1946), known by the stage name Ferdinand Marian, was an Austrian actor. Though a prolific stage actor in Berlin and a popular matinée idol throughout the 1930s and early '40s, he ...

as The Agitator *

Josef Eichheim Josef Theodor Ludwig Eichheim (23 February 1888 – 13 November 1945) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (1926) * '' The Women's War'' (1928) * '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1928) * '' Peter Voss, T ...

as Harris, a journalist * Günther Vogdt *

Erna Fentsch Erna Fentsch (21 April 1909 – 26 November 1997) was a German actress and screenwriter. She appeared 18 films between 1932 and 1944. Selected filmography * '' A Man with Heart'' (1932) * '' The Tunnel'' (1933) * '' The Champion of Pontre ...

Beppo Brem Beppo Brem (11 March 1906 in Munich, German Empire – September 5, 1990 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor, who was in over 200 film and television productions between 1932 and 1990. He often played stereotypically Bavarian characte ...

Otto Brüggemann Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ...

Friedrich Ulmer Friedrich Ulmer (1877–1952) was a German film actor. Partial filmography * ''Das schwarze Amulett'' (1920) * ''Der Totenkopf'' (1920) * ''Die Hexe von Lolaruh'' (1920) as Waldläufer * ''A Dying Nation'' (1922, part 1, 2) * '' Helena'' (1924) ...

References

Bibliography

* Koepnick, Lutz. ''The Dark Mirror: German Cinema Between Hitler and Hollywood''. University of California Press, 2002.

External links

* 1933 films Films of the Weimar Republic French science fiction films German science fiction films French black-and-white films 1930s science fiction films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Curtis Bernhardt Films based on German novels Films based on works by Bernhard Kellermann German multilingual films German black-and-white films 1933 multilingual films 1930s French films 1930s German films {{sf-film-stub