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Jul 4, 2015 · The boys try to defend their bridge, but little do they know that even their own army wants to destroy it. The film presents the boys as isolated and alone in their fight, with a close connection to their childhood surroundings.
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Jun 24, 2015 · Teen angst. Until, that is, the reality of fear, blood and death is brought home. The subtlest aspect of The Bridge lies in its treatment of the rising confusion between the boys’ blind enthusiasm and the discordant experience which suddenly undermines everything they’ve been taught. When the game of war becomes all too real, the perverse ...
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Jul 19, 2015 · It is a tragedy, and their blood is on the German machine’s hands. Coming in 1959, this film at least to the younger generation is a way of processing and coming to terms with how misguided the older generation was. The Bridge, however tragic, is a catharsis. Film Rating: 8/10. Supplements.
Jun 25, 2015 · The action of the film, which opened in West Germany in the autumn of 1959, takes place in a small, pretty Bavarian town in the desperate last days of the Second World War, as seven very raw Volkssturm recruits attempt to defend an old stone bridge against the overwhelming force of a conquering American army.
Summaries. In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers. A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war.
The supreme irony of the film is that, while the boys' superior officer (who is himself shot almost instantly for apparent desertion by his own compatriots!) orders them to defend the expendable bridge ostensibly to keep the kids out of harm's way, the fact that the German forces intend blowing it up regardless so as to stem the Allied advance ...
Oct 6, 2018 · Based on an actual event fictionalized by Gregor Dorfmeister in a 1958 novel of the same title, the film tells the story of a small squad of German teenagers who assume the futile task of defending a bridge against the Allies in the closing days of World War II in Europe.
