Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- small town
- nazi
- steel helmet
- war crimes
- firearm
- bridge
- dead soldier
- us army
- teenage boy
- american abroad
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Folker Bohnet
Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper
Albert Mutz
Michael Hinz
Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht
Jurgen Borchert
- Karl Michael Balzer — Karl Horber
- Volker Lechtenbrink — Klaus Hager
- Günther Hoffmann — Sigi Bernhard
- Cordula Trantow — Franziska
- Wolfgang Stumpf — Stern
- Günter Pfitzmann — Heilmann
- Heinz Spitzner — Fröhlich
- Siegfried Schürenberg — Lieutenant Colonel
- Ruth Hausmeister — Frau Mutz
- Eva Vaitl — Frau Borchert
- Edith Schultze-Westrum — Mutter Bernhard
- Directed
- Bernhard Wicki
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 198 ratings
- Studio
- Fono Film, Taurus Produktion
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
