Le Tunnel (1933)
December 15, 1933Release Date
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Jean Gabin
Mac Allan
Madeleine Renaud
Mary
Pierre Nay
Hobby
Gustaf Gründgens
Woolf
André Nox
Lloyd
Edmond van Daële
Le contremaître
André Bertic
Gordon
Philippe Richard
Harryman
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The Tunnel (French: Le Tunnel) is a 1933 French-German science fiction film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud and Robert Le Vigan. It was the French language version of the German film The Tunnel, with a different cast and some changes to the plot. Both were followed in 1935 by an English version. Such Multiple-language versions were common in the years immediately following the introduction of sound, before the practice of dubbing had come to dominate international releases. Germany and France made a significant number of films together at this time.
The film is an adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's 1913 novel Der Tunnel about the construction of a vast tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean connecting Europe and America. The film's Jewish director Bernhardt had fled Germany following the Nazi takeover, but returned briefly to shoot exterior scenes after being granted special permission by the German government.