The Bridge - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Bridge"
Die Brücke (1959)
Timing:
1:43 (103 min)
7.481/10
160
160
7.838/10
1463
1463
7.9/10
9300
9300
Film crew
Director
Executive Producer
Hans Wolff
Executive Producer
Editor
Carl Otto Bartning
Editor
Costume Design
Josef Wanke
Costume Design
Production Design
Peter Scharff
Production Design
Makeup Artist
Jonas Müller
Makeup Artist
Alfred Rasche
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Sound Effects Editor
Still Photographer
Gabriele Du Vinage
Still Photographer
Screenplay
Michael Mansfeld
Screenplay
Karl-Wilhelm Vivier
Screenplay
Novel
Sound Designer
Willi Schwadorf
Sound Designer
Location Manager
Rudolf Fichtner
Location Manager
Karl Hellmer
Location Manager
Special Effects
Erwin Lange
Special Effects
Assistant Director
Holger Lussmann
Assistant Director
Pyrotechnic Supervisor
Karl Baumgartner
Pyrotechnic Supervisor
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel of the same name by Gregor Dorfmeister (published under the pseudonym Manfred Gregor).
- The film was released in Soviet cinemas from 1962 under the title «A Heavy Reckoning».
- The film was shot in the Bavarian town of Kam. The bridge itself was named after Florian Geyer, and in 1994 it was destroyed and a new one was built in its place.
- None of the tanks shown in the film were real. By 1959, the Bundeswehr was only just beginning to form and did not have any tanks at all. Bernhard Wicki solved this by mounting wooden models on car chassis.
- Footage from the film is often shown as wartime newsreel footage. For example, in the Soviet television film «Seventeen Moments of Spring» (episodes 7, 8).
- The original novel is largely an autobiography of Gregor himself: on May 1, 1945, Gregor (who was then 16 years old) and seven other boys were assigned to guard the Bad Tölz entrance bridge against Allied troops. During that day, five of the eight boys were killed. Gregor fled the next day, while the two remaining continued to defend the bridge. Later, Gregor returned to the bridge and discovered that they had been killed as well.
- The 336th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht, in which the characters supposedly served, actually ceased to exist in 1945, ending its days in May 1944 in Sevastopol.
- The film was shown in Soviet cinemas from 1962 under the title "Heavy Reckoning".
- Footage from the film is often shown as newsreel footage of the war years. For example, in the Soviet television film "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (episodes 7, 8).
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