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The Bridge(1959)
Status: Released
Date: 1959-10-21
75%
173 Votes
Time: 1h 43m
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.
Languages: German.
Countries:
Germany
ProductionCompanies:
Fono Film
Taurus Produktion
Movie: The Bridge
Top 10 Billed Cast
Folker Bohnet
Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper
Albert Mutz
Frank Glaubrecht
Jurgen Borchert
Volker Lechtenbrink
Klaus Hager
Günther Hoffmann
Sigi Bernhard
Cordula Trantow
Franziska
Wolfgang Stumpf
Stern
Günter Pfitzmann
Heilmann
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