The Bridge
movie

Released October 21, 1959
Overview
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
as
Hans Scholten

Fritz Wepper
as
Albert Mutz

Michael Hinz
as
Walter Forst

Frank Glaubrecht
as
Jurgen Borchert
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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
Crew
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Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
as
Screenplay
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Gerd von Bonin
as
Director of Photography

Carl Otto Bartning
as
Editor

Bernhard Wicki
as
Screenplay
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Willi Schwadorf
as
Sound Designer

Bernhard Wicki
as
Director
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Michael Mansfeld
as
Screenplay
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Gregor Dorfmeister
as
Novel
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Hans Wolff
as
Executive Producer
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Jonas Müller
as
Makeup Artist

Karl Hellmer
as
Location Manager
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Josef Wanke
as
Costume Design