The Bridge (1959)
21/10/1959
Drama, History, War
1h 43m
- 75% (178 votes)
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Overview
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
- Bernhard WickiDirector, Screenplay
- Michael MansfeldScreenplay
- Karl-Wilhelm VivierScreenplay
Original Title
Die Brücke
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Keywords
- small town
- nazi
- steel helmet
- war crimes
- firearm
- bridge
- dead soldier
- us army
- teenage boy
- american abroad
- anti war
- shot
- children in wartime
Top Billed Cast
Folker Bohnet
Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper
Albert Mutz
Michael Hinz
Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht
Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer
Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink
Klaus Hager
Günther Hoffmann
Sigi Bernhard
Cordula Trantow
Franziska
Wolfgang Stumpf
Stern
Günter Pfitzmann
Heilmann
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