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The Bunker is a 2001 horror film directed by Rob Green, written by Clive Dawson and starring Jason Flemyng.

Synopsis

During the last weeks of World War II, several German soldiers take refuge in a reinforced bunker after being pushed back by American troops on the Belgian-German border. The bunker is one of the German Armies last line of defence - The Siegfried Line, and has only two soldiers left to man it, all the others having been sent to attack the Allies. Soon after they arrive they run low on ammunition and decide they must get more and also find a means of escaping. The elderly Private Mirus, who was a member of the bunker's original garrison, tells the group stories about the tunnels and how they are supposedly haunted by the plague victims who were murdered in the area hundreds of years before. Along with Mirus is the teenage Private Neumann, a Hitler Youth who looks on the newly arrived soldiers as heroes.

Deciding it best to stay put, the group takes shifts manning the machine gun position and keeping lookout for enemy soldiers. While off his shift, Mirus sneaks off into the tunnels; curious, one of the other soldiers follows him without his knowledge. Back in the bunker it's shift change and the soldiers come to get the others discovering they are not there and have wandered into the tunnels. The group suspects them of deserting and follows them into the tunnels to capture them.

Cast

Trivia: The Harmonica tune coming from the forest (supposedly played by an American soldier) is "Man with a harmonica" by Ennio Morricone originally written for the 1968 film Once upon a time in the west.

External links

• The Bunker at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bunker at Allmovie