Die Brücke (1959)
Note: this print runs 97 minutes against a recorded 103 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz, Folker Bohnet, Cordula Trantow, Frank Glaubrecht, Volker Lechtenbrink, Günther Hoffmann, Edith Schultze-Westrum
Directed by Bernhard Wicki
Die Brücke (German pronunciation: [diː ˈbʁʏkə] , "The Bridge") is a 1959 West German anti-war film directed by Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister (published under the pseudonym Manfred Gregor). The story was based on an actual event, upon the personal report of a surviving veteran who in his own youth experienced a similar situation in World War II.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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