Tunnel-Child (1990)

ALL 02/07/1990 (de) Drama 88 Min
  • Release
    02/07/1990
  • Production
    Teamfilm Produktion
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Tunnelkind
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

1969. The Prague Spring has been demolished. New barbed wire installations have been erected. Julia, who is thirteen, has moved with her mother to a village in northern Austria which lies on the Czech border. Julia has not spoken since her father's death. Her isolation increases in the village where she is an outsider. Provoked into proving her courage by some young villagers, she walks into no-man's land. She discovers a forgotten tunnel which leads to a construction site on the Czech side of the border. Julia makes the acquaintance of Roland, a forty-five-year-old surveyor, on "the other side". An ambivalent father-daughter relationship develops between them. Roman is the only one to whom she confides the secret of her border crossings. Due to his affection for her, she regains her ability to speak. And she starts to feel at ease with Alexander, who is her age. Roman makes new plans at Julia's urging. The insurmountable border foritfications will remain vulnerable . . .

  1. Story

  2. Veronika Putz

    Editor

  3. Wulf Flemming

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Josef Griesser

    Roman, Landvermesser

  2. August Schmölzer

    Freund der Mutter

  3. Georges Kern

    Lehrer

  4. Silvia Lang

    Julia

  5. Claudia Martini

    Julia's mother

  6. Christoph Künzler

    Volek

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 6 , Crews : 12

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Tunnel-Child (1990) 88 Min

ALL 02/07/1990 (de)
Drama
  • Release 02/07/1990
  • Production
    Teamfilm Produktion
  • Original title Tunnelkind
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

1969. The Prague Spring has been demolished. New barbed wire installations have been erected. Julia, who is thirteen, has moved with her mother to a village in northern Austria which lies on the Czech border. Julia has not spoken since her father's death. Her isolation increases in the village where she is an outsider. Provoked into proving her courage by some young villagers, she walks into no-man's land. She discovers a forgotten tunnel which leads to a construction site on the Czech side of the border. Julia makes the acquaintance of Roland, a forty-five-year-old surveyor, on "the other side". An ambivalent father-daughter relationship develops between them. Roman is the only one to whom she confides the secret of her border crossings. Due to his affection for her, she regains her ability to speak. And she starts to feel at ease with Alexander, who is her age. Roman makes new plans at Julia's urging. The insurmountable border foritfications will remain vulnerable . . .

  1. Erhard Riedlsperger

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Veronika Putz

    Editor

  4. Wulf Flemming

    Producer