- HD 1080
- Runtime: 103m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: de
- Country: Germany
- Director: Bernhard Wicki
- Stars: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer
- keywords: small town, nazi, steel helmet, war crimes, firearm, bridge, dead soldier, us army, teenage boy, american abroad, anti war, shot, children in wartime
- Production_studio: Fono Film, Taurus Produktion
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The The Bridge is featured in the top rankings of 1959
- #16 in Top Drama Movies of 1959
- #7 in Top War Movies of 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.