Jan 12, 2009 the entire film is an extended saga of the total waste of german youth at the end of the war and the impacts of mad fanatizism on young impressionable minds. A group of german boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. The idealistic hans scholten, albert mutz, walter forst, jurgen borchert, karl horber, klaus hager and sigi bernhard join the army on 26 april 1945, with great expectations and enthusiasm to defend their motherland germany in the front against the will of. A couple of days before the end of world war ii, seven sixteen yearold german boys from a small village are recruited for military service. In the final days of world war ii, german teenagers join the nazi army in a. Set during the final months of the war in europe when the germans conscripted teenagers and old men to defend the crumbling reich, the film focuses seven teens who are abandoned by the retreating, demoralized wehrmacht to defend a worthless bridge against advancing. Film tersebut berdasarkan pada novel 1958 eponim karya jurnalis dan penulis gregor dorfmeister diterbitkan dibawah pseudonim manfred gregor. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist. Pages in category 1959 films the following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 9 total.
Its director bernard wicki went on to codirect the longest day. It wasnt until 1958 that a west german film attempted to break this pattern. Founding members were fritz bleyl, erich heckel, ernst ludwig kirchner and karl schmidtrottluff. In the final days of world war ii, german teenagers join the nazi army in a futile attempt to stop the enemy invasion. With francois goeske, franka potente, lars steinhofel, robert holler. The buddenbrooks 1959 film the bureaucrats 1959 film bus conductor 1959 film but not for me 1959 film c. 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. I have no idea who wrote the synopsis, but obviously the person mistook this film for the other one. Jelikoz nemecka armada v roce 1959 stale jeste nesmela byt vyzbrojena tanky, musel bernhard wicki vyrobit drevene modely a ty umistit na podvozky nakladnich vozidel. Esta baseado na novela homonima do xornalista e escritor gregor dorfmeister publicada baixo o alcume manfred gregor. Based on an actual event fictionalized by gregor dorfmeister in a 1958 novel of the same title, the film tells the story of a small squad of german teenagers who assume the futile task of defending a bridge. Later members were emil nolde, max pechstein and otto mueller. Bernhard wickis directorial debut, this is an excellent little film with little plot and no known names on the roster. German film awards 1989 winner special film award 40th anniversary of the federal republic of germany bernhard wicki.
Very riveting and fantastic performances from the teens. This is a totally different film from 1949, which depicts the life in the germany after the ww ii. Technically the film isnt breathtaking although technically a war film only the last third is action which is very well done. Folker bohnet, fritz wepper, michael hinz, frank glaubrecht. I saw this film at umass for my german film class in 1990 this was easily the best of the films that i saw throughout that semester and the plate was full metropolis, cabinet of dr. This video contains content from beta film gmbh, who has blocked it in your country on grounds. Faro island film festival 1959 nominee golden moon award. Predstavlja adaptaciju istoimenog autobiografskog romana gregora dorfmeistera. It was nominated for the oscar for best foreign language film and won the golden globe. One of the mostpowerful antiwar films ever made, this awardwinning film, based on an autobiographical novel by manfred gregor, vividly depicts seven bavarian schoolboys in the last days of world war 2 and their assignment to defend a strategically useless bridge at the edge of their town. The bridge is a 1959 west german 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. Radnja je smjestena u njemacki gradic pred sam kraj drugog svjetskog rata i prikazuje kako nacisticke vlasti nekolicinu lokalnih gimnazijalaca regrutiraju u volkssturm i daju im zadatak da brane most od nadirucih.
In this tv remake of the classic german war film, 16yearold walter and his friends are recruited to help defend a bridge near their town. Based on an autobiographical novel by gregor dorfmeister writing as manfred gregor, the bridge attempts to create a realistic depiction of the tail end of the. A sympathetic officer places the boys as guards of a seemingly unimportant bridge. The movie was based on a novel by gregor dorfmeister who heard about the incident from a. Criterions impressive new bluray of the bridge presents bernhard wickis landmark film depicting the futile waste of young lives in the final. Caligari, the blue angel, m all fantastic films but this one was the best. Based on an actual event fictionalized by gregor dorfmeister in a 1958 novel of the same title, the film tells the story of a small squad of german teenagers who assume the futile task of defending a bridge against the allies in the closing days of world war ii in europe. Frank glaubrecht, michael hinz, fritz wepper, folker bohnet. It is based on the eponymous 1958 novel by author manfred gregor. Il governo nazista ordina allesercito tedesco in rotta su tutti i fronti di apprestarsi a unimprobabile difesa. Two germanlanguage film versions of the novel were made, one in 1959 by austrian director bernhard wicki and one in 2008, a television film by wolfgang panzer. 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. What begins as a minor op becomes a life or death battle in which the idealistic young men confronted by the brutal reality of war.