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Die Brucke (1949) The Bridge DEFA refugee-film very rare
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Video > Movies
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1
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772.41 MB

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Spoken language(s):
German
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DEFA refugees

Uploaded:
Nov 29, 2013
By:
tzuhalem



This is NOT the 1959 Bernhard Wicki film about child soldiers, this is a 1949 film about refugees from the east pouring across the eponymous bridge into a town that is ill-equipped to receive them. Tensions result; bigotry and inhumanity are major themes.

For some years after 1945, the East German company DEFA was at the forefront of German film-making, producing such classics as The Murderers Are Among Us. It turned a lack of funding and equipment into advantages, producing gritty cinema-verite films about postwar upheaval and confusion.

The Bridge fits in nicely. My one grumble is the soundtrack - pretty music more appropriate to a Disney adventure.

No subtitles, it will help if you have some Germam.