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.

Folker Bohnet
Hans Scholten

Fritz Wepper
Albert Mutz

Michael Hinz
Walter Forst

Frank Glaubrecht
Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer
Karl Horber

Volker Lechtenbrink
Klaus Hager

Günther Hoffmann
Sigi Bernhard

Cordula Trantow
Franziska
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Release Date
October 21, 1959
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
PG-13
Genres
Drama, History, War
Director