Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestIn the spring of 1873, people from all over the world come to the tiny village of Göschenen in the canton of Uri, to work on the biggest and most spectacular construction site of modern times: the tunnel through the Gotthard.
Production
Period detail so immersive you'll smell the dynamite and despair.
Acting
Mehmet's Max unravels with terrifying, magnetic precision.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic tunnels vs. majestic Alps—visual poetry of entrapment.
Maxim Mehmet
Max
Pasquale Aleardi
Tommaso Lazzaroni
Miriam Stein
Anna
Carlos Leal
Louis Favre
Joachim Król
Knecht
Maximilian Simonischek
Bachmann
Christoph Gaugler
Anton
Roeland Wiesnekker
Wagner
Cornelius Obonya
Riedinger
Silvia Busuioc
Leo
Walter Leonardi
Guiseppe
Anna Schinz
Maja
Pierre Siegenthaler
Alfred Escher
Peter Jecklin
Dr. Zwyssig
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Gotthard Tunnel killed over 200 workers, mostly Italian laborers paid starvation wages—this series barely fictionalizes the horror.
Director Urs Egger spent years securing funding because Swiss broadcasters feared depicting national heroes as villains—he won by framing it as 'universal' rather than specifically Swiss shame.
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