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The Bridge

7.619591h 43mMovieDramaHistoryWar

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,…

DirectorBernhard Wicki
WritersMichael Mansfeld·Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
ProducerHans Wolff

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Cast · Directed by Bernhard Wicki

FBFolker Bohnet
Folker Bohnet
Hans Scholten
FWFritz Wepper
Fritz Wepper
Albert Mutz
MHMichael Hinz
Michael Hinz
Walter Forst
FGFrank Glaubrecht
Frank Glaubrecht
Jurgen Borchert
KB
Karl Michael Balzer
Karl Horber
VLVolker Lechtenbrink
Volker Lechtenbrink
Klaus Hager
GHGünther Hoffmann
Günther Hoffmann
Sigi Bernhard
CTCordula Trantow
Cordula Trantow
Franziska
WSWolfgang Stumpf
Wolfgang Stumpf
Stern
GPGünter Pfitzmann
Günter Pfitzmann
Heilmann
HSHeinz Spitzner
Heinz Spitzner
Fröhlich
SSSiegfried Schürenberg
Siegfried Schürenberg
Lieutenant Colonel

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