The Tunnel

The Tunnel

2000 · 86 min · ★ 8.0 · War, Drama

The plot of this film is set in an idyllic village in the middle of Bosnia, connected with outer world only with a tunnel. Story begins in 1996, when refugees in a police escort come close to their, due to war abandoned, homeland and a tunnel - their only connection with the world.

Directed by Faruk Sokolović · Written by Nedžad Latić

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