The Bunker (2001 film)

**The Bunker** is a 2001 war horror film directed by Rob Green, with a screenplay by Clive Dawson. Jason Flemyng leads the cast.

**Plot**

In late 1944, the survivors of a Panzergrenadier platoon are ambushed by American forces. During their retreat, Private Hugo Engels is killed. The platoon then discovers a bunker held by Privates Heinrich Mirus (Jack Davenport) and Michael Neumann (Andrew-Lee Potts), who have orders to defend it. Corporal Otto Schenke confronts Sergeant Theobald Heydrich about the lack of a counter-attack. Mirus tells the group about the area’s history: victims of the Black Plague were massacred there on the orders of a stranger who turned the townspeople against each other.

That night, tunnels are found beneath the bunker. Corporal Schenke (Andrew Tiernan) wants to explore, but Lieutenant Krupp (Simon Kunz) refuses. Mirus sneaks into the tunnels, followed by Private First Class Wolfgang Kreuzmann (Christopher Fairbank). When they go missing, Krupp suspects desertion and orders a search. Neumann is caught and reveals that Mirus had been using the tunnels privately for weeks, hiding his activities. Corporal Bruno Baumann (Jason Flemyng) finds plans for the complex, while Corporal Tobias Ebert (John Carlisle) discovers a warning sign. Ebert also finds a mine shaft, where he is attacked from behind by a silhouette resembling Kreuzmann.

Baumann believes Americans are in the tunnels and uses a generator to turn on the lights. Krupp demands an explanation from Mirus, but machine-gun fire interrupts them. Returning to the bunker, the platoon finds they were shooting at nothing. Cut phone lines convince them Americans are below. The group splits up to search. Mirus claims his dead son is speaking to him about the tunnels. Schenke and Krupp find Ebert’s body. Another group discovers a mass grave, and Kreuzmann is found catatonic. He breaks away, runs into Krupp and Schenke, and is shot dead by them, causing a collapse that kills Krupp.

The gunfire alerts Neumann, who enters the tunnel and, fleeing a shadowy figure, joins Schenke. Mirus tries to run but gets tangled in barbed wire. When Heydrich, Baumann, and Helmut Franke try to blow the bunker door with a grenade, Schenke and Neumann mistake the noise for an American attack and set a demolition charge to destroy the ammunition. Heydrich, Baumann, and Franke fail to open the door. While search