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The Bridge (1959) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 21, 1959

Original Title:
Die Brücke

Alternate Titles:
A Hid
A Ponte da Desilusão
Broen
De Brug
Die Brucke
El puente
I gefyra
Il ponte
Köprü
Le pont
Most
Sild
The Bridge
Тяжёлая расплата

Genres:
Drama | History | War

Production Companies:
Fono Film
Taurus Produktion

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  BR: e 14  DE: 12  PT: e 14 

Runtime: 103

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Assistant Director:
Holger Lussmann

Costume Design:
Josef Wanke

Director:
Bernhard Wicki

Director of Photography:
Gerd von Bonin

Editor:
Carl Otto Bartning

Executive Producer:
Hans Wolff

Location Manager:
Rudolf Fichtner
Karl Hellmer

Makeup Artist:
Alfred Rasche
Jonas Müller

Novel:
Gregor Dorfmeister

Original Music Composer:
Hans-Martin Majewski

Production Design:
Peter Scharff

Pyrotechnic Supervisor:
Karl Baumgartner

Screenplay:
Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
Bernhard Wicki
Michael Mansfeld

Sound Designer:
Willi Schwadorf

Sound Effects Editor:
Oskar Sala

Special Effects:
Erwin Lange

Still Photographer:
Gabriele Du Vinage

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