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Title: The Bridge (1959)
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Cast
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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 | |
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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
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The film is set in Cham, in Bavaria, Germany. See more »Goofs
When the boys are assembled at night, they are told they will be part of the 336th Division. That unit was destroyed and surrendered to the Soviets on the Eastern Front nearly a year earlier in 1944 and was never reformed. See more »Alternate Versions
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West GermanyRelease Date:
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A number of German teenage boys are recruited for the "Volkssturm" in the final days of World War II.
Before they are just normal guys experiencing their first love or having a taste for adventure. This taste for adventure has been exploited by the regime who now tries to use their idealism for delaying the defeat of Germany. They boys think they will contribute to the "Endsieg".
A lieutenant who is like most other grown up persons in the film devoid of any enthusiasm makes a plan to secure them. But the "idealism" the Nazi regime has inculcated into them shatters his plans.
This film moves a generation of Germans growing up around 1960. I think its honors in demasking the Nazi regime among that generation can not be doubted. Therefore some flaws (some melodramatic scenes, mediocre acting by the boys) may be excused. (8/10)