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There was a lot of hype in the media about this miniseries. Considering the spectacular subject it was nothing special. The outcome is well known in Germany. So it wasn't even exciting to see those men fighting for their lives. There was an old TV docu-drama about the miracle of Lengede. Forty years ago the filmmakers could dare to show a dark screen for most of the time when the men in the "old man" tunnel had dialogue in complete darkness. Naturally, this was not the case in this movie. It's just a fair, routine drama. Heike Makatsch gives a good performance as grieving widow, though.

After seeing the First Part of "Das Wunder von Lengede" I feel a slight disappointment. 1963 when the mining Desaster happened the german magazin "Der Stern" printed Interviews with the surviving Miners, these Interviews should have been shown and nothing more.

After being trapped the Miners forgot to switch their Lights off s very soon they sat in the Dark. OK you cannot show complete darkness on a TV Show, that would be dull, but you should dim the Light so much that most of the things on-screen would be left to Imagination.

After eight days the Miners should show MUCH more hairgrowth in the faces.

The Overalltone of this thing is far to blown up and iced with sugarsweet pathos..

Just take the last scene were a dying Miner who tried to escape by diving faints and hearsthe song "Glück auf der Steiger kommt"... that is cheap while trying to look like great Cinema. At best i give it 5.5 out of ten.

For those really interested what happend there, call the Sternarchiv and request those Interviews or try to see "Das Drama von Lengede" a documentation on the ARD produced by the WDR

While being in tradition of German TV productions (Sat1 production) I expected a highly unrealistic, baggy and inaccurate movie.

The opposite seems to be true:

After the opening screening, they showed a documentary, which revealed that the movie is indeed qute realistic. It`s an emotianl movie which bases on a "true story" and is filled up with modern special effects on the one hand, but also realistic represntation of the 60s io the other hand.