Movie · 1959
The Bridge
“Boys and Girls Dream of love,Manhood and Womanhood to DIscover a World of Violence !”
Released 21 October 1959 103 min Drama / History / War More from 1959 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Siegfried Schürenberg
as Lieutenant Colonel
Edith Schultze-Westrum
as Mutter Bernhard
Wolfgang Stumpf
as Stern
Hans Elwenspoek
as Frost
Ruth Hausmeister
as Frau Mutz
Trude Breitschopf
as Frau Frost
Georg Lehn
as Stabsweldfebel
Heinz Spitzner
as Fröhlich
Eva Vaitl
as Frau Borchert
Günter Pfitzmann
as Heilmann
Edeltraut Elsner
as Barbara
Folker Bohnet
as Hans Scholten
Michael Hinz
as Walter Forst
Fritz Wepper
as Albert Mutz
Günther Hoffmann
as Sigi Bernhard
Frank Glaubrecht
as Jurgen Borchert
Cordula Trantow
as Franziska
Karl Michael Balzer
as Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink
as Klaus Hager
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The numbers
44years between the oldest and youngest billed
59Siegfried Schürenberg — oldest on the call sheet
15Volker Lechtenbrink — youngest billed
33average age of the credited cast