The Bridge 1959
7.50/10 by 165 users
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.
- Title: The Bridge
- Year: 1959
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Country: Germany
- Studio: Fono Film, Taurus Produktion
- Director: Bernhard Wicki
- Cast: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer, Volker Lechtenbrink
- Crew: Carl Otto Bartning (Editor), Gerd von Bonin (Director of Photography), Bernhard Wicki (Director), Karl-Wilhelm Vivier (Screenplay), Gregor Dorfmeister (Novel), Willi Schwadorf (Sound Designer)
- Keyword: small town, nazi, steel helmet, war crimes, firearm, bridge, dead soldier, us army, teenage boy, american abroad, anti war, shot, children in wartime
- Release: Oct 21, 1959
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- IMDb: 7.50 / 10 by 165 users
- Popularity: 11
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Language: Deutsch
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