Article: Cold War thriller fans will dig `Tunnel'.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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The Boston Herald
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September 2, 2005
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"The Tunnel."

Not rated. In German with subtitles. At the Kendall Square Cinema.

Three stars (out of four)

Despite its nearly three-hour running time, first-rate German import The Tunnel is as lean and elemental as its title. This truly amazing true story tells of the first days of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the enterprising Germans who built an elaborate tunnel from West Berlin into Communist East Berlin to help nearly 30 people escape.

For a generation that has never experienced the paranoid Cold War environment of the 60s, The Tunnel ably sketches the personal side of life under an oppressive regime. In this atmosphere of ...

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