The Bridge
Release Date: 1959-10-21
Rating : 7.5/10
Duration : 103 minutes
Genres : Drama, History, War
Director : Bernhard Wicki
Writer : Michael Mansfeld, Karl-Wilhelm Vivier, Bernhard Wicki
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.
Cast
Folker Bohnet
Fritz Wepper
Michael Hinz
Frank Glaubrecht
Karl Michael Balzer
Volker Lechtenbrink