Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

simondclinch-1 There have been earlier films about tunnels under the Berlin wall, but this is by far the best. It traces the story from the building of the wall and is fact-based.This film is best watched with subtitles, because listening to the dialogue in German affords a complete suspension of disbelief. I felt as if I was actually there!The plot is deliciously unpredictable and the characters exceptionally well developed.Also the length is generous but justified by the fullness of the plot.Moreover, the plot, while lengthy, doesn't contain much distraction, so that suspense builds up from beginning to end.

Jay Harris This is supposedly a true story of one of the Tunnels built under the Berlin Wall in 1961.There were many groups of persons in East Berlin wanting to flee to the west. At the time East Germany built a large wall hoping to prevent further attempts. This film is about one attempt.The film is directed by Roland Richter, the script by Johannes Betz however is overly 'mello-dramatic' and way-way too long. The running time of TWO HOURS and FORTY SEVEN is about an hour too long.This film should have been suspenseful & exciting, at times it is a big bore. The production is meticulous in detail, The acting is what you would expect.I really was hoping to give this a better review.Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 77 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)

lastliberal It is hard to believe that this movie lasted almost three hours. It was so compelling that you stayed glued to the screen the entire time and were surprised when it ended.The acting by Heino Ferch (Downfall), Nicolette Krebitz (All the Queen's Men), Alexandra Maria Lara (Control, The Reader), Claudia Michelsen (The Reader), and Sebastian Koch (Black Book, The Lives of Others) was superlative. There were others that contributed to making Roland Suso Richter's film the superlative treat that it was.To see the lengths that people will go through to save their loved ones is inspiring.

rudy2001 "Der Tunnel" is far better than anything i've seen coming out of Hollywood in years. Although steadily paced, its tention keeps building for almost three hours. Based on a true story, it shows that real life stories often provide the best scripts.The cast was well chosen and the acting was excellent. I knew Berlin when it was still divided and the film is a spot on portrayal of the mood at the time.All in all a gripping story guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Not to be missed. 10/10!