The Bridge 1959

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.

Cast

Folker Bohnet

Fritz Wepper

Michael Hinz

Frank Glaubrecht

Karl Michael Balzer

Volker Lechtenbrink

Günther Hoffmann

Cordula Trantow

Wolfgang Stumpf

Günter Pfitzmann

Heinz Spitzner

Siegfried Schürenberg

Ruth Hausmeister

Eva Vaitl

Edith Schultze-Westrum

Hans Elwenspoek

Trude Breitschopf

Klaus Hellmold

Inge Benz

Til Kiwe

Edeltraut Elsner

Vicco von Bülow

Georg Lehn

Johannes Buzalski

Heini Göbel

Alexander Hunzinger