The Bridge

Name: The Bridge
Genre: Drama, War, History
Released: 1959-10-21
Duration: 103 min
Cast: Karl Michael Balzer, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Michael Hinz, Hans Elwenspoek, Klaus Hellmold

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Release Date

10/21/1959

Runtime

103 mins

Genres

Drama War History

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.

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Released

Original Language

German

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A stark, ideologically unsparing portrait of the collision between adolescent indoctrination and the brutal reality of war's final days. The film watches as idealistic German boys discover that their training and conviction mean nothing against the machinery of defeat.