Directed by Bernhard Wicki
Starring Folker Bohnet · Fritz Wepper · Michael Hinz · Frank Glaubrecht
Original language: German
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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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Cast
- Folker BohnetHans Scholten
- Fritz WepperAlbert Mutz
- Michael HinzWalter Forst
- Frank GlaubrechtJurgen Borchert
- Karl Michael BalzerKarl Horber
- Volker LechtenbrinkKlaus Hager
- Günther HoffmannSigi Bernhard
- Cordula TrantowFranziska
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- Directed by
- Bernhard Wicki
- Written by
- Bernhard Wicki, Karl-Wilhelm Vivier, Michael Mansfeld, Gregor Dorfmeister
- Released
- 1959-10-21
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
