The Bridge
1959A 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.
Acted in
Folker Bohnet
as Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper
as Albert Mutz
Michael Hinz
as Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht
as Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer
as Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink
as Klaus Hager
Günther Hoffmann
as Sigi Bernhard
Cordula Trantow
as Franziska
Wolfgang Stumpf
as Stern
Günter Pfitzmann
as Heilmann
Heinz Spitzner
as Fröhlich
Siegfried Schürenberg
as Lieutenant Colonel
Ruth Hausmeister
as Frau Mutz
Eva Vaitl
as Frau Borchert
Edith Schultze-Westrum
as Mutter Bernhard
Hans Elwenspoek
as Frost
Trude Breitschopf
as Frau Frost
Klaus Hellmold
as Horber
Inge Benz
as Sigrun
Til Kiwe
as Ritter
Edeltraut Elsner
as Barbara
Vicco von Bülow
as Stabsweldfebel
Georg Lehn
as Stabsweldfebel
Johannes Buzalski
as Wounded Soldier
Heini Göbel
as Feldwebel Verpflegung
Alexander Hunzinger
as Gefreiter