Overview
Plot
In the final months of World War II, German boys are ordered to defend a small bridge in their village. As weary Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching Americans, the boys, fueled by Nazi ideology, stay to hold the useless bridge.
- Directors
- Bernhard Wicki
- 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
- Country
- Germany
- Genre
- Drama, History, War
- Release date
- 1959-10-21
- Studios
- Taurus Produktion, Fono-Film
Plot
Warning: spoilers
The Bridge Plot and Cast
Based on Gregor Dorfmeister's West German anti-war novel, the film follows a group of German boys tasked with guarding a small bridge in their home village during the last months of World War II. While defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers retreat from the advancing American troops, the boys remain, driven by their fervent belief in Nazi "blood and honor" ideology, to defend a bridge of no strategic value.
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