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.
Cast
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
Wolfgang Stumpf
Stern
Günter Pfitzmann
Heilmann
Heinz Spitzner
Fröhlich
Siegfried Schürenberg
Lieutenant Colonel
Ruth Hausmeister
Frau Mutz
Eva Vaitl
Frau Borchert
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Mutter Bernhard
Hans Elwenspoek
Frost
Trude Breitschopf
Frau Frost
Klaus Hellmold
Horber
Inge Benz
Sigrun
Til Kiwe
Ritter
Edeltraut Elsner
Barbara
Vicco von Bülow
Stabsweldfebel
Georg Lehn
Stabsweldfebel
Johannes Buzalski
Wounded Soldier
Heini Göbel
Feldwebel Verpflegung
Alexander Hunzinger
Gefreiter
Crew
Bernhard Wicki
Director, Screenplay
Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
Screenplay
Michael Mansfeld
Screenplay
Gregor Dorfmeister
Novel
Carl Otto Bartning
Editor
Gerd von Bonin
Director of Photography
Holger Lussmann
Assistant Director
Hans Wolff
Executive Producer
Peter Scharff
Production Design
Josef Wanke
Costume Design
Karl Baumgartner
Pyrotechnic Supervisor
Jonas Müller
Makeup Artist
Alfred Rasche
Makeup Artist
Willi Schwadorf
Sound Designer
Oskar Sala
Sound Effects Editor
Erwin Lange
Special Effects
Hans-Martin Majewski
Original Music Composer
Gabriele Du Vinage
Still Photographer
Karl Hellmer
Location Manager
Rudolf Fichtner
Location Manager
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