Bernhard Wicki's The Bridge (Die Brucke)
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Uploaded by DigitalClassics on Oct 13, 2009
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This Oscar-nominated classic by Bernhard Wicki is a gripping and shocking anti-war movie. Seven schoolboys, still under-age, are drafted into the German Army during the last days of the war in April 1945. Without any training, they receive the order to defend a bridge against advancing American troops. Filled with fervor and patriotic enthusiasm, they believe that fighting for their homeland is the greatest honor. Unaware that the bridge is strategically useless and will be blown up anyway, the boys take their orders very seriously, with many paying the ultimate price. Soon the pointlessness of the deaths, and their orders, is realised. An uncompromising look at the cruelty and absurdity of war.
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@CPAirsoft100 I meant the people who signed up voluntarily and were anti-semetist.
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Oh, I am very sorry.
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@superturkeylegs you don't have to hate them. I had family in both, and they fought just to survive. It doesn't matter what army you're in, because every army performs atrocities. I'm actually proud of my family who survived ww2 against the soviets in the hitler youth and wehrmacht
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Very chilling music.
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Are they in the Hitler Youth or the Wehrmacht? (I do not approve either of these, they are sick.)
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In this English speaking version, Buck Henry the writer, director and Saturday Night Live comedian is one of the voice overs.
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@NordischesLicht Patton wasn't an angel. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower fired him from his commanding position because he talked too much BS in public. However, when it comes to wiping out Nazis, he was the greatest. Watch out for the dictator. If innocent public (like German people) allows a dictator to seize power, the entire nation becomes a war machine. You need to learn a lesson from the history instead of being sympathetic to stupidity.
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@MrDragonfly1234 You know what Patton said about Jews and Germans?
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Die Bruke" was a great movie. While stationed in Germany I saw the movie in a German theater around summer 1960. I wish they would show it on TV (maybe Turner Movie Classics Channel or something). These kids were school kids who, in the Hitler Youth, were assigned to hold a bridge during
the last months of the war. Their CO was their school principle, who told them
not to waste their lives, but to surrender to the Americans as soon as they
saw them, and not to fire on them. Vy sad
bigal1940 1 year ago 4
I saw this last night.... It's really quite powerful.
Gairm 1 year ago 2