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.
Folker Bohnet
Fritz Wepper
Michael Hinz
Frank Glaubrecht
Karl Michael Balzer
Volker Lechtenbrink
Günther Hoffmann
Cordula Trantow
Wolfgang Stumpf
Günter Pfitzmann
Heinz Spitzner
Siegfried Schürenberg
Ruth Hausmeister
Eva Vaitl
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Hans Elwenspoek
Trude Breitschopf
Klaus Hellmold
Inge Benz
Til Kiwe
Edeltraut Elsner
Vicco von Bülow
Georg Lehn
Johannes Buzalski
Heini Göbel
Alexander Hunzinger