SKU 1620 Availability DIE LETZTE BRÜCKE (1954) * with switchable multiple subtitles * Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki and Barbara Rütting, Helmut Käutner (1) Add your review 5.0 1 $13.99 Qty: Add to cart Email a friend Question about product? Add to wishlist DetailsExisting reviews1 A German nurse, Helga (Maria Schell), is kidnapped by Yugoslavian partisans. Their doctor has died and they need another one. Helga has medical training, so she's forced to go with them. At first, she goes with them unwillingly. She doesn't like them and they don't like her. As time goes by, however, she begins to see them as they really are: not bandits, but as human beings that need her help. And while they are going through mountains and crossing rivers, a new understanding of the people and the land dawn on her. Sometimes they are attacked by German forces and Helga begins to suspect that maybe things are not so simple as she once thought. She doesn't know anymore where she belongs. This subject could have easily led to a maudlin or preachy film, but Die Letzte Brücke avoids these traps. The film manages to convey emotion through a skillful use of images and words - close-ups on Maria Schell's face, on other faces, the mountains, the rivers, the bridges. When partisan commandant Boro (Bernhard Wicki) and Helga are passing by a cemetery, he says to Helga: "Here are buried the German soldiers", and then, with a wide gesture, showing the landscape, mountains and all, he says: "and there are buried our people, my people, our land". Images and words work together and the emotion conveyed by them is deep; but the film is not at all melodramatic. DVD-R is in German with switchable English, Spanish and French subtitles. Approx. 98 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality! Wonderful, 6/9/2014 4:20 AM From: rogerthemoviemaniac88 Superb quality. No issues with jumps of fuzziness. A heartbreaking classic from Kautner and a print to really do the movie justice. Was this review helpful? 1 0 Related products DER KAMPF UM ALKAZAR (1940) * with switchable... $13.99 SPIONE (1928) * with switchable English subti... $9.99 HAIE UND KLEINE FISCHE (Sharks and Little Fish... From $9.99 KAMERADEN AUF SEE (1938) $10.99 ADMIRAL CANARIS - A LIFE FOR GERMANY (1954) *... $13.99 AUS EINEM DEUTSCHEN LEBEN (1977) * with switc... $14.99 DER LETZTE AKT (1955) * with switchable Engli... $14.99 DER PROZESS (1948) * with switchable English... $14.99 DER STERN VON AFRIKA (1957) The Star of Africa... From $9.99 ES GESCHAH AM 20 JULI (1955) * with switchabl... $13.99 CHEER BOYS CHEER (1939) $12.99 ALARM IM ZIRKUS (1954) $11.49 DIE GOLDENE PEST (1954) $9.99 EINE FRAU VON HEUTE (1954) $9.99 HEIDESCHULMEISTER UWE KARSTEN (1954) $9.99 ROSEN RESLI (1954) $10.99 SAUERBRUCH - DAS WAR MEIN LEBEN (1954) $10.99 SCHLOSS HUBERTUS (1954) $9.99 UND EWIG BLEIBT DIE LIEBE (1954) $10.99 VERRAT AN DEUTSCHLAND (Der Fall Dr. Sorge) (1954) $9.99 DER SCHWEIGENDE ENGEL (1954) $9.99 < > Customers who bought this item also bought DER FUCHS VON PARIS (1957) * with switchable... $13.99 HIMMEL OHNE STERNE (1956) * with switchable E... $13.99 BATTLE OF THE V-1 (1958) $9.99 ZAMACH (The Attempt) (1959) * with switchable... $13.99 ES KOMMT EIN TAG (1950) $9.99 DER MANN, DEM MAN DEN NAMEN STAHL (1944) $7.99 OHM KRÜGER (1941) * with switchabe English su... $14.99 DER STERN VON AFRIKA (1957) The Star of Africa... From $9.99 FABRIK DER OFFIZIERE (1960) $10.99 GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (1943) * with switchabl... $13.99 FRAU NACH MASS (1940) $9.99 HEIMKEHR (1941) * improved picture quality * $10.99 FAHRMANN MARIA (1936) * with switchable Engli... $13.99 UNTER DEN BRÜCKEN (1945) * with switchable En... $15.49 ROMANZE IN MOLL (1943) *with switchable English... $13.99 ICH KLAGE AN (1941) + ERBKRANK (1936) *with... $16.99 DIE GRÜNEN TEUFEL VON MONTE CASSINO (1958) *... $14.99 TUNTEMATON SOTILAS (The Unknown Soldier) (1955... $13.99 L’UOMO DALLA CROCE (The Man with the Cross) (... $15.99 DER LETZTE AKT (1955) * with switchable Engli... $14.99 2 DVD SET: DER HAUPTMANN VON KÖPENICK (1931/56... $19.99 IN JENEN TAGEN (1947) * with switchable Engli... $13.99 BERLINER BALLADE (1948) * with switchable Eng... $13.99 KIRMES (1960) $11.29 ADMIRAL CANARIS - A LIFE FOR GERMANY (1954) *... $13.99 < > Product tags Brücke (6) , BRUCKE (4)