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THE BRIDGE

This Oscar-nominated classic by Bernhard Wicki is a gripping and shocking anti-war movie. Seven schoolboys, still under-age, are drafted into the German Army during the last days of the war in April 1945. Without any training, they receive the order to defend a bridge against advancing American troops. Filled with fervor and patriotic enthusiasm, they believe that fighting for their homeland is the greatest honor. Unaware that the bridge is strategically useless and will be blown up anyway, the boys take their orders very seriously, with many paying the ultimate price. Soon the pointlessness of the deaths, and their orders, is realised. An uncompromising look at the cruelty and absurdity of war.. “Superb…without question the successor to All Quiet on the Western Front” (New York Mirror), “Skillful and ferocious… a minutely observed, almost unwatchable massacre of the innocents.” (Time Magazine) “An intense and compelling film, notable for its cinematic sharpness and its concentrated emotional drive.” (New York Times)

Cast: Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Siegfried Schuerenberg, Wolfgang Stumph
Director(s): Bernhard Wicki
Format: Colour
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 minutes