The Bridge
1959 • Drama | History
Bernhard Wicki
Director
Status
Released
Release date
October 21, 1959
Duration
103 Min
Language
de
Popularity
1.8009
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
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.
Cast
Folker Bohnet
Fritz Wepper
Frank Glaubrecht
Volker Lechtenbrink
Günther Hoffmann
Cordula Trantow
Wolfgang Stumpf
Günter Pfitzmann
Heinz Spitzner
Siegfried Schürenberg
Ruth Hausmeister
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Til Kiwe
Edeltraut Elsner
Vicco von Bülow
Georg Lehn
Johannes Buzalski
Heini Göbel
