The Bridge

The Bridge

Released on
Drama, History, War
Runtime
103 mins
(170 votes)

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
  • 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

Director

  • Bernhard Wicki

Producers

    Screenwriter

    • Michael Mansfeld
    • Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
    • Bernhard Wicki

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