Film · Drama, History, War
The Bridge (1959)
Boys and Girls Dream of love,Manhood and Womanhood to DIscover a World of Violence !
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.
- Director
- Bernhard Wicki
- Writers
- Michael Mansfeld, Karl-Wilhelm Vivier, Bernhard Wicki
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Release date
- October 21, 1959
- Original title
- Die Brücke
Cast
Folker BohnetHans Scholten
Fritz WepperAlbert Mutz
Michael HinzWalter Forst
Frank GlaubrechtJurgen Borchert- Karl Michael BalzerKarl Horber
Volker LechtenbrinkKlaus Hager
Günther HoffmannSigi Bernhard
Cordula TrantowFranziska
Wolfgang StumpfStern
Günter PfitzmannHeilmann
Heinz SpitznerFröhlich
Siegfried SchürenbergLieutenant Colonel
Ruth HausmeisterFrau Mutz- Eva VaitlFrau Borchert
Edith Schultze-WestrumMutter Bernhard- Hans ElwenspoekFrost
- Trude BreitschopfFrau Frost
- Klaus HellmoldHorber
- Inge BenzSigrun
Til KiweRitter
