The Bridge

Oct 21, 1959

1h 43m

★ 7.5

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.

Genres

Drama

History

War

Production Companies

Fono Film

Taurus Produktion

The Bridge Trailers

Cast

Hans Scholten

Folker Bohnet

Albert Mutz

Fritz Wepper

Walter Forst

Michael Hinz

Jurgen Borchert

Frank Glaubrecht

Karl Horber

Karl Michael Balzer

Klaus Hager

Volker Lechtenbrink

Sigi Bernhard

Günther Hoffmann

Franziska

Cordula Trantow

Stern

Wolfgang Stumpf

Heilmann

Günter Pfitzmann

Fröhlich

Heinz Spitzner

Lieutenant Colonel

Siegfried Schürenberg

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