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
as Hans Scholten
Fritz Wepper
as Albert Mutz
Michael Hinz
as Walter Forst
Frank Glaubrecht
as Jurgen Borchert
Karl Michael Balzer
as Karl Horber
Volker Lechtenbrink
as Klaus Hager
Günther Hoffmann
as Sigi Bernhard
Cordula Trantow
as Franziska
Wolfgang Stumpf
as Stern
Günter Pfitzmann
as Heilmann
Heinz Spitzner
as Fröhlich
Siegfried Schürenberg
as Lieutenant Colonel
