The Last Bridge

1954 film

The Last Bridge

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Directed by| Helmut Käutner
Written by| Helmut Käutner
Norbert Kunze
Helmuth Ashley
Rados Novakovic
Produced by| Carl Szokoll
Starring| Maria Schell
Bernhard Wicki
Barbara Rütting
Cinematography| Elio Carniel
Edited by| Hermine Diethelm
Paula Dvorak
Music by| Karl de Groof

Production
companies

Cosmopol-Film
UFUS

Distributed by| Columbia Film

Release date

* 11 February 1954 (1954-02-11)

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] The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

## Plot

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A German nurse is captured by Yugoslav partisans, and with her devotion to medical duty finds herself with divided loyalty to both sides of the conflict.

## Production

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The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Pischinger and Wolf Witzemann. Location shooting took place in Mostar, Počitelj and other locations along the Neretva valley in Bosnia.

## Cast

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* Maria Schell as Dr. Helga Reinbeck
* Bernhard Wicki as Boro
* Barbara Rütting as Milica
* Carl Möhner as Martin Berger
* Pavle Mincić as Momcillo
* Horst Hächler as Leutnant Scherer
* Robert Meyn as Stabsartz Dr. Rottsieper
* Zvonko Žungul as Partisan Sava
* Tilla Durieux as Mara
* Fritz Eckhardt as Tilleke
* Janez Vrhovec as Partisan Vlaho
* Walter Regelsberger as Nachrichtensoldat
* Steffie Schwarz as Oberschwester
* Bata Stojanović as Partisan
* Stevo Petrović as Partisan Ratko
* Milan Nesić as Partisan
* Franz Eichberger as Gebirgsjäger
* Heinrich Einsiedel as Gebirgsjäger
* Pero Kostić as Partisan

## References

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1. ^ Von Dassanowsky p.157
2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Last Bridge". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2009.

## Bibliography

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* Von Dassanowsky, Robert . Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.

## External links

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* The Last Bridge at IMDb
* The Last Bridge at filmportal.de/en

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Films directed by Helmut Käutner

* Kitty and the World Conference (1939)
* Clothes Make the Man (1940)
* Woman Made to Measure (1940)
* We Make Music (1942)
* Anuschka (1942)
* Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
* Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944)
* Under the Bridges (1946)
* In Those Days (1947)
* The Original Sin (1948)
* Royal Children (1950)
* White Shadows (1951)
* Captain Bay-Bay (1953)
* The Last Bridge (1954)
* Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
* Ludwig II (1955)
* The Devil's General (1955)
* Sky Without Stars (1955)
* The Girl from Flanders (1956)
* The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
* Love from Paris (1957)
* The Rest Is Silence (1959)
* The Goose of Sedan (1959)
* A Glass of Water (1960)
* Black Gravel (1961)
* The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961)
* Redhead (1962)
* The House in Montevideo (1963)
* Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)

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