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Die Brücke (1959)
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1 May 1961 (USA)
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They look for love in a world of violence!
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In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
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A rare find, but worth it
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | |
| Cordula Trantow | ... | Franziska | |
| Wolfgang Stumpf | ... | Stern | |
| Günter Pfitzmann | ... | Heilmann | |
| Heinz Spitzner | ... | Fröhlich | |
| Siegfried Schürenberg | ... | Lt. Colonel | |
| Ruth Hausmeister | ... | Mrs. Mutz | |
| Eva Vaitl | ... | Mrs. Borchert | |
| Edith Schultze-Westrum | ... | Mother Bernhard |
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The Bridge (USA)
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Germany:105 min | USA:102 min
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The film is set in Cham, in Bavaria, Germany.
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Edited into Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow genannt Loriot (2008) (TV)
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I had heard about this film from a book on war movies. It actually took me quite some time to find it, but I'm very glad I was finally able to see it.
Since this movie is old, and seemingly all but forgotten, I have little knowledge about the making of it, the writer and director's background, or anything else besides the film itself and the comments on this page.
With that in mind, I can say that I was fascinated with this film and was moved and disturbed by its conclusion. Yes, I agree with someone's comments below that there is not much evidence in the movie that the war is humiliatingly flattening Germany. However, I do believe that there were some small town areas that escaped the bombs, and were able to survive from the farmer's produce. What is probably least authentic about the movie is the absence of refugees (although they are mentioned) and the boys' lack of serious Hitler-Youth indoctrination--they do believe in the third reich, however, they never wear HJ uniforms or go to meetings. The Hitler Youth were fanatically loyal to the Nazis, and became the main menace to the allies in the closing months of the war.
The main theme of this movie is the pure waste of Germany's youth by the Nazis. That is the main difference between the closing sequence in this movie and the one in "Saving Private Ryan." These boys died for nothing. The boys that died in this film were like thousands of others killed in this war--brainwashed youth fighting and dying to prolong the Third Reich and Hitler's worthless life for a few more weeks.
This is a very interesting movie for today's American viewers. Although it was made about 15 years after the war, it still has an aged, foreign look and feel to it, and the war has to have been recent in the filmmaker's minds. It is also interesting to see the Americans portrayed as "the enemy." They are treated in the same fashion that American filmmakers usually depict their enemies. The movie will still have everyone sad for these forgotten, abandoned boys. I felt particularly sad for the boy strafed by the plane. Grade: B+