First-Time Viewing

The Bridge

Release Date:May 1, 1961

Running Time:103 min

Genres:Drama, History, War

Director

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

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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.

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