The Bridge

Fritz Wepper Director: Bernhard Wicki Bernhard Wicki

Overview

Bernhard Wicki's directorial debut, this is an excellent little film with little plot and no known names on the roster. In the final days of World War II, German teenagers join the Nazi army in a futile attempt to stop the enemy invasion. A sympathetic officer places the boys as guards of a seemingly unimportant bridge. The seven youths are thrown into battle when American tanks unexpectedly appear and try to cross the bridge. The film has a definite anti-war message.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/23/2015
UPC:	0715515149310
Original Release:	1959
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Time:	1:43:00
Sales rank:	27,230

Special Features

New interview with writer Gregor Dorfmeister, on whose autobiographical novel the film is based New interview with filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff about the film's impact on German cinema Interview form 1989 with director Berrnhard Wicki Excerpt from a 2007 documentary by Elisabeth Wicki-Endriss, Wicki's widow, featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Fritz Wepper	Mutz
Michael Hinz	Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht	Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer	Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink	Klaus Hager
Cordula Trantow	Franziska
Gunter Pfitzmann	Cpl. Heilmann
Folker Bohnet	Actor
Ruth Hausmeister	Mrs. Mutz
Siegfried Schürenberg	Lt. Colonel
Wolfgang Stumpf	Stern
Edith Schultze-Westrum	Mrs. Bernhard
Vicco Von Buelow	Actor
Hans Elwenspoek	Mr. Forst

Technical Credits

Bernhard Wicki

Erwin C. Dietrich

Michael Mansfeld

Karl-Wilhelm Vivier

Bernhard Wicki	Director,Screenwriter
C.O. Bartning	Editor
Gerd von Bonin	Cinematographer
Erwin C. Dietrich	Screenwriter
Hans-Martin Majewski	Score Composer
Michael Mansfeld	Screenwriter
Hermann Schwerin	Producer
Karl-Wilhelm Vivier	Screenwriter