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Der Tunnel
1933 · Film · 72 min
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. MacAllan's worst enemy is the speculator Woolf, who had embezzled the money for the construction and who is attempting to cover up his crime by carrying out acts of sabotage. Also filmed in 1933 in a French-language version, LE TUNNEL, and remade in 1935 in England as TRANSATLATIC TUNNEL.
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Ah, yes, my bad, quoting Wikipedia of all things!
> Director Karl Hartl developed Gold after the international success of his previous science fiction film Der Tunnel.
However, "Der Tunnel" (1933) was of course directed by Curtis Bernhardt (producer: Ernst Garden). I can't see, as well, where Hartl would have been involved.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024703/
https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/14338/der-tunnel-1933
Thanks for the correction!
The article mentions that the director made a previous science fiction film, The Tunnel. But i don't think he did - that was made by someone else, and it's about the construction of a trans-Atlantic tunnel which ends in disaster [1]. He did make F. P. 1, about the construction of a mid-Atlantic airport island which ends in disaster [2]. I note that The Tunnel was re-made in English (or re-adapted from the source novel) the next year [3].
Seems there was a good market for films about disasters under the Atlantic (or North Sea, at a pinch).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1933_German-language_film)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.P.1
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1935_film)