The Last Bridge
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Directed by | Helmut Käutner |
Written by | Helmut Käutner Norbert Kunze Helmuth Ashley |
Produced by | Carl Szokoll |
Starring | Maria Schell Bernhard Wicki Barbara Rütting |
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Edited by | Paula Dvorak |
Music by | |
Production companies | Cosmopol-Film UFUS |
Distributed by | Columbia Film |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Countries | Austria Yugoslavia |
Language | German |
The Last Bridge (German: Die Letzte Brücke) is a 1954 Austrian-Yugoslavian war drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki and Barbara Rütting.[1] It tells the story of a German nurse who is captured by Yugoslav partisans, and with her devotion to medical duty finds herself with divided loyalty to both sides of the conflict. The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Pischinger and Wolf Witzemann. Location shooting took place in Mostar and the Neretva valley in Bosnia.
Cast[]
- Maria Schell as Dr. Helga Reinbeck
- Bernhard Wicki as Boro
- Barbara Rütting as Milica
- Carl Möhner as Martin Berger
- as Momcillo
- Horst Hächler as Leutnant Scherer
- Robert Meyn as Stabsartz Dr. Rottsieper
- as Partisan Sava
- Tilla Durieux as Mara
- Fritz Eckhardt as Tilleke
- Janez Vrhovec as Partisan Vlaho
- as Nachrichtensoldat
- as Oberschwester
- as Partisan
- as Partisan Ratko
- as Partisan
- as Gebirgsjäger
- as Gebirgsjäger
- as Partisan
References[]
- ^ Von Dassanowsky p.157
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Last Bridge". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
Bibliography[]
- Von Dassanowsky, Robert . Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1954 films
- German-language films
- 1954 drama films
- 1950s war drama films
- Austrian war drama films
- Yugoslav war drama films
- Austrian films
- Yugoslav films
- Films directed by Helmut Käutner
- War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia
- Anti-war films about World War II
- Austrian black-and-white films
- Films set in Yugoslavia
- Austrian World War II films
- Austrian film stubs