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The Bridge

Name: The Bridge
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1959
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer

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.

1959 · Directed by Bernhard Wicki · 103 min · Drama · History · War · 9 frames

Tagline

Boys and Girls Dream of love,Manhood and Womanhood to DIscover a World of Violence !

Crew

Screenplay: Karl-Wilhelm Vivier, Bernhard Wicki, Michael Mansfeld
Cinematography: Gerd von Bonin
Edited by: Carl Otto Bartning
Music: Hans-Martin Majewski
Production design: Peter Scharff

Cast

Folker Bohnet as Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper as Albert Mutz
Michael Hinz as Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht as Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer as Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink as Klaus Hager
Günther Hoffmann as Sigi Bernhard
Cordula Trantow as Franziska
Wolfgang Stumpf as Stern
Günter Pfitzmann as Heilmann

Production

Country: Germany
Language: German
Studios: Taurus Produktion, Fono-Film
Themes: small town, nazi, steel helmet, war crimes, firearm, bridge, dead soldier, us army, teenage boy, american abroad

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