[enviros_kill]

“The Tunnel” (2001)

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. Director Roland Suso Richter revisits a period of Cold War history that has so many twists and turns, it seems like fiction — except there really was a former East German swim star who led the tunnelers after rejecting everything that Communist Germany had to offer. Well done.

[winstonwolf33]

Thanks for posting this movie suggestion, enviros_kill! I just saw Der Tunnel and loved it! I never even heard of this movie until I read your post. Luckily, it was available in Netflix. It's a great movie. The fact that the story was based on real-life events makes it more enjoyable to watch.