The Bridge

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Call Number: Blu-ray FLC-GER Bridge
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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1.37:1 aspect ratio.
Based on the novel by Gregor Dorfmeister.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
Special features: new iterviews with writer Gregor Dorfmeister and filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff; interview from 1989 with Bernhard Wicki; excerpt from a 2007 documentary by Elisabeth Wicki-Endriss, Wicki's wife, featuring test reel footage from the shoot; essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty.
Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz.
The first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination. Set near the end of the war, it follows a group of teenage boys in a small town as they contend with everyday matters like school, girls, and parents, before enlisting as soldiers and being forced to defend their home turf in a confused, terrifying battle.
Blu-ray, monaural.
Contents: Brücke.

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one of the best Anti-war movies ever made submitted by ablome on April 20, 2015, 4:44pm given that this movie was filmed mostly out- side because the studio's were still bombed out and the believability of the story, it is authentic - it has a quiet impact - not a loud action movie - but .....

I watched this movie the first time when I was 14 years old while being on a school trip - it has not lost it's impacted through this day, about 30 years later.