Der Tunnel (1915)
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Friedrich Kayßler, Hermann Vallentin, Fritzi Massary, Rose Veldtkirch, Felix Basch, Hans Halden
Engineer Max Allan dreams of linking Europe and America by tunnel, but powerful opponents are determined to stop his ambitious project.
The story
Engineer Max Allan plans to dig a tunnel between Europe and America, linking the continents by land. He has found a powerful financier in American billionaire Lloyd, but the project requires enormous sums and is estimated to take fifteen years to build. Allan faces powerful opponents determined to stop his futuristic undertaking, especially Woolf, president of the financial syndicate. Woolf incites the workers laboring in the tunnel system to strike and eventually revolt, putting Allan’s ambitious plan under direct threat.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Engineer Max Allan is planning something fantastic: he wants nothing less than to dig a tunnel between Europe and America, finally connecting the two continents by land. He has also found a powerful financier: the American billionaire Lloyd. Allan needs enormous sums of money to carry out this major project, which is estimated to take a decade and a half to build. But he has powerful opponents who are determined to prevent his futuristic dream, above all Woolf, the president of the financial syndicate. Woolf incites the workers laboring in the tunnel system to go on strike and eventually revolt. When Allan can persuade his men to resume work with the gift of the gab, his fiercest adversary resorts to the ultimate measure: he has acts of sabotage carried out, hoping these attacks will have an effect on Allan and the workers. But he is gravely mistaken.
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