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The Bridge (1959)
Directed by Bernhard Wicki
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.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Folker Bohnet | Fritz Wepper | Michael Hinz | Frank Glaubrecht | Karl Michael Balzer | Volker Lechtenbrink | Günther Hoffmann | Cordula Trantow | Wolfgang Stumpf | Günter Pfitzmann | Heinz Spitzner | Siegfried Schürenberg | Ruth Hausmeister | Eva Vaitl | Edith Schultze-Westrum | Hans Elwenspoek | Trude Breitschopf | Klaus Hellmold | Inge Benz | Til Kiwe | Edeltraut Elsner | Vicco von Bülow | Georg Lehn | Johannes Buzalski | Heini Göbel | Alexander Hunzinger