The Bridge (1959)
1h 43m
Running Time
October 21, 1959
Release Date
The Bridge (1959)
1h 43m
Running Time
October 21, 1959
Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Folker Bohnet
Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper
Albert Mutz
Michael Hinz
Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht
Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer
Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink
Klaus Hager
Günther Hoffmann
Sigi Bernhard
Günter Hoffmann
Sigi Bernhard
Cordula Trantow
Franziska
Wolfgang Stumpf
Stern
Günter Pfitzmann
Heilmann
Heinz Spitzner
Fröhlich
Siegfried Schürenberg
Lieutenant Colonel
Ruth Hausmeister
Frau Mutz
Eva Vaitl
Frau Borchert
Heinz Pauck
Writer
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Mutter Bernhard
Hans Elwenspoek
Frost
Hermann Schwerin
Producer
Trude Breitschopf
Frau Frost
Klaus Hellmold
Horber
Inge Benz
Sigrun
Til Kiwe
Ritter
Edeltraut Elsner
Barbara
Vicco von Bülow
Stabsweldfebel
Georg Lehn
Stabsweldfebel
Johannes Buzalski
Wounded Soldier
Heini Göbel
Feldwebel Verpflegung
Alexander Hunzinger
Gefreiter
Bernhard Wicki
Director / Screenplay
Michael Mansfeld
Screenplay
Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
Screenplay
Gregor Dorfmeister
Novel
Gerd von Bonin
Director of Photography
Carl Otto Bartning
Editor
Willi Schwadorf
Sound Designer
Hans Wolff
Executive Producer
Hans-Martin Majewski
Original Music Composer
Peter Scharff
Production Design
Josef Wanke
Costume Design
Jonas Müller
Makeup Artist
Alfred Rasche
Makeup Artist
Holger Lussmann
Assistant Director
Oskar Sala
Sound Effects Editor
Karl Baumgartner
Pyrotechnic Supervisor
Erwin Lange
Special Effects
Gabriele Du Vinage
Still Photographer
Rudolf Fichtner
Location Manager
Media.
Details.
Release Date
October 21, 1959
Original Name
Die Brücke
Status
Released
Running Time
1h 43m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
war crimes
small town
bridge
u.s. army
firearm
dead soldier
steel helmet
teenage boy
american abroad
shot
children in wartime
nazi
anti war
Wiki.
Die Brücke (English: The Bridge) is a 1959 West German anti-war film directed by Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister (published under the pseudonym Manfred Gregor). The story was based on an actual event, upon the personal report of a surviving veteran who in his own youth experienced a similar situation in World War II.
The film was timely in West as the Bundeswehr had only recently been created in 1955 with conscription in beginning in 1956. It received several international prizes, notably the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film, also a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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