Released:
1959-10-21

Overview:
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.

Director:
Bernhard Wicki

Runtime:
1h 43min

Genre:
Drama, History, War

• Cast:
• 
  Folker Bohnet
  as
  Hans Scholten
• 
  Fritz Wepper
  as
  Albert Mutz
• 
  Michael Hinz
  as
  Walter Forst
• 
  Frank Glaubrecht
  as
  Jurgen Borchert
• 
  Karl Michael Balzer
  as
  Karl Horber