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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.
A crumbling German village becomes a hollow battlefield when adolescent boys trade their schoolbooks for rifles to defend a single bridge. Their fanatical devotion to a dying regime clashes violently with the cynical reality of retreating soldiers.
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Bernhard Wicki
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Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer, Volker Lechtenbrink, Günther Hoffmann, Cordula Trantow, Wolfgang Stumpf, Günter Pfitzmann
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The Bridge
You can stream The Bridge (1959) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.
Director
Bernhard Wicki
Cast
Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Frank Glaubrecht, Karl Michael Balzer, Volker Lechtenbrink, Günther Hoffmann, Cordula Trantow, Wolfgang Stumpf, Günter Pfitzmann
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The Bridge is streaming on Criterion Channel. Availability last verified July 9, 2026.