The Bridge (1959)
Die Brücke
Boys and Girls Dream of love,Manhood and Womanhood to DIscover a World of Violence !
103 min
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.
- Release date
- October 22, 1959
- Country of origin
- Germany
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Cast
- Folker Bohnet as Hans Scholten
- Fritz Wepper as Albert Mutz
- Michael Hinz as Walter Forst
- Frank Glaubrecht as Jurgen Borchert
- Karl Michael Balzer as Karl Horber
- Volker Lechtenbrink as Klaus Hager
- Cordula Trantow as Franziska
- Wolfgang Stumpf as Stern
- Günter Pfitzmann as Heilmann
- Heinz Spitzner as Fröhlich
- Siegfried Schürenberg as Lieutenant Colonel
- Ruth Hausmeister as Frau Mutz
- Eva Vaitl as Frau Borchert
- Edith Schultze-Westrum as Mutter Bernhard
- Hans Elwenspoek as Frost
- Trude Breitschopf as Frau Frost
- Edeltraut Elsner as Barbara
- Vicco von Bülow as Stabsweldfebel
- Georg Lehn as Stabsweldfebel
- Johannes Buzalski as Wounded Soldier
- Heini Göbel as Feldwebel Verpflegung
- Buck Henry as Voice of American Soldier
- Günter Hoffmann as Sigi Bernhard
Crew
- Bernhard Wicki · Director
- Manfred Gregor · Writer
- Michael Mansfeld · Writer
- Heinz Pauck · Writer
- Hermann Schwerin · Producer
- Hans-Martin Majewski · Composer
- Gerd von Bonin · Cinematographer
- Carl Otto Bartning · Editor
- Heinrich Graf Brühl · Production designer
- Peter Scharff · Production designer