Die Brucke (1949) The Bridge DEFA refugee-film very rare
- Type:
- Video > Movies
- Files:
- 1
- Size:
- 772.41 MB
- Info:
- IMDB
- Spoken language(s):
- German
- Tag(s):
- 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.