Movie
1915
The Tunnel is a 1915 German silent drama film directed by William Wauer and starring Friedrich Kayssler, Fritzi Massary and Hermann Vallentin. It is the first of several film adaptations of Bernhard Kellermann's 1913 novel The Tunnel about the construction of a vast tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean connecting Europe and America. The film was made by Paul Davidson's PAGU production company, with sets designed by art…
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In the first decades of cinema the mere novelty of film as a technology made genre of science fiction appealing to film makers. Some of the most expensive and ambitious film projects of those times were based on science fiction novels. One of those is *The Tunnel*, 1915 German silent epic directed by William Wauer, often cited as the first science fiction feature film in history. The film is based on eponymous bests…More
