DYNAMITE AT THE SIMPLON

DYNAMIT AM SIMPLON

By Werner SCHWEIZER

DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 1989

A communist guerrilla commander, a Swiss railway worker, a catholic priest and the Swiss secret service successfully prevented the destruction of the tunnel.

    • Year of production
    • 1989
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • SWISS-GERMAN, ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Werner SCHWEIZER
    • Producer(s)
    • Werner SCHWEIZER (Dschoint Ventschr)
    • Synopsis
    • Shortly before the end of the Second World War, the Nazis wanted to demolish the at that time longest tunnel in the world, the Simplon Tunnel. A communist partisan commander, a Swiss railway employee, a Catholic priest and the Swiss secret service successfully prevented the destruction.