The Bridge
“Boys and Girls Dream of love,Manhood and Womanhood to DIscover a World of Violence !”
1959•1h 43m•7.6•Released
DramaHistoryWar
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.
Director
Bernhard Wicki
Writer
Michael Mansfeld, Karl-Wilhelm Vivier, Bernhard Wicki
Languages
German
Studio
Fono Film
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
Heinz Spitzner
Fröhlich
Siegfried Schürenberg
Lieutenant Colonel
Ruth Hausmeister
Frau Mutz
Eva Vaitl
Frau Borchert
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Mutter Bernhard
Production
Company
Fono Film
Company
Taurus Produktion
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