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.
Hans Scholten

Albert Mutz

Walter Forst

Jurgen Borchert

Karl Horber
Klaus Hager

Sigi Bernhard

Franziska

Stern

Heilmann

Fröhlich

Lieutenant Colonel

Frau Mutz

Frau Borchert
Mutter Bernhard

Frost
Frau Frost
Horber
Sigrun
Ritter

Barbara

Stabsweldfebel

Stabsweldfebel

Wounded Soldier

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