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Die Brücke (English: The Bridge) is a 1959 West German anti-war film directed by Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister (published under the pseudonym Manfred Gregor).
The Bridge: Directed by Bernhard Wicki. With Volker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht. In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.
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- Drama, History, War
- Bernhard Wicki
- 1961-05-01
Jul 19, 2015 · The ending of the war and Nazism forever altered German society, and the manner of thinking needed time to change. Berlin was occupied for a long time, and eventually the nation was split during the Cold War.
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The Bridge. Bernhard Wicki’s astonishing The Bridge was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation’s first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination.
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The idealistic Hans Scholten, Albert Mutz, Walter Forst, Jurgen Borchert, Karl Horber, Klaus Hager and Sigi Bernhard join the army on 26 April 1945, with great expectations and enthusiasm to defend their motherland Germany in the front against the will of their parents.
The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister. 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.
