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Folker Bohnet | ... | Hans Scholten |
Fritz Wepper | ... | Albert Mutz | |
Michael Hinz | ... | Walter Forst | |
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Frank Glaubrecht | ... | Jurgen Borchert |
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Karl Michael Balzer | ... | Karl Horber |
Volker Lechtenbrink | ... | Klaus Hager | |
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Günter Hoffmann | ... | Sigi Bernhard (as Günther Hoffmann) |
Cordula Trantow | ... | Franziska | |
Wolfgang Stumpf | ... | Stern | |
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Günter Pfitzmann | ... | Heilmann |
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Heinz Spitzner | ... | Fröhlich |
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Siegfried Schürenberg | ... | Lt. Colonel |
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Ruth Hausmeister | ... | Mrs. Mutz |
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Eva Vaitl | ... | Mrs. Borchert |
Edith Schultze-Westrum | ... | Mother Bernhard |
A group of German boys is 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. Written by Miranda Callahan
I only saw this movie once, many many years ago, but I never forgot it.I had no idea it was made in 1959 until a client referred me to this website to see if it was useful for work I do for fliers I create every year. I have searched for this movie in video stores for over twenty years and all they ever found in their databases were references to a movie similarly titled about drug smuggling. I gave up years ago. I now know it is still available (but where?). I served in the Marine Corps but was discharged a year before Vietnam. Thank God I did not have the opportunity to implement my training while overseas. I was older than these schoolchildren but just as conditioned and idealistic. Discharged in 1964, I slowly woke up and participated in the protests of the late '60s. Indoctrinated by the educational system of the '50s and John Wayne movies, I would have behaved and felt just like these manipulated young boys in "The Bridge". I strongly recommend this film to anyone interested in the practice of childhood conditioning for political ends. War is sometimes justified, but dying for an empty cause never is. I count this movie in the top 10 best anti-war movies ever made.