The Bridge
The Bridge
| 01 January 1969 (USA)
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In order to check the German offensive, Partizans send an elite team of explosive experts to blow up a strategically important bridge. Besides being heavily guarded, that bridge is almost indestructible and the only man who knows weak spots in the construction is the architect who built it. He is, however, reluctant to cooperate because he doesn't want to see his masterpiece destroyed.

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YouHeart

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

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Bea Swanson

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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Janae Milner

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Brennan Camacho

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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Leofwine_draca

Your usual nondescript Yugoslavian WW2 movie. Once again the movie features a group of partisan fighters who must go up against the might of the Nazi army when they decide to blow up a bridge over which a large number of German troops are about to cross. The plot is as predictable as it sounds, although the film does feature a ton of action which makes the running time fly past reasonably well.I saw this film in an incredibly poor quality version - shown on the UK Movies4Men TV channel - with blurred and flickering picture quality, although at least it was the English subtitled version. Unlike many Yugoslavian war films, this one doesn't have any imported American stars in the lead, just local actors.I guess these films play better in Eastern Europe where audiences can identify more with the characters and their actions. It all seems very tired to me, a film which simply copies Hollywood fare. The action scenes are adequate but hardly astounding. I prefer the equivalent British WW2 films, which tend to have less action but better characterisation.

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Steve Riley

They have just shown this on movies4men with English sub titles, whoever did them needs shooting, they have done literal word for word translation and totally miss the context.It is a shame that so many sub titled films that are spoilt because the person is unable to actually pay attention to the sentence and properly translate the context.I agree with a previous poster that the character presentation is very good, no doubt why it was released with (poor) English sub titles. It is a shame that some good actors are no longer with us. I will research their names and find out if they died as a result of the break up of Yugoslavia.

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ktang_rph

masterpiece of ww2 movies. the plot is simple. destroy the bridge and hold the genmen armored force. i watched this movie almost 30 years ago with walter brani sarajevo. i just got these movies from the internet. i have been watching them more than ten times. i still enjoy them. there is one thing that i havent caught it 30 years ago. the germen uniforms were very nice in all these moives. however, it does not take any time for them to change it. they get the machine guns from the german soldier and then got into the car with their normal clothes. in the next sence, they are already in different type of german uniforms. that is the only funny part of the movie.

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cenga50

The strong German Army forces must to cross over the bridge (somewhere in Yugoslavia) on their way back from Greece,in the year of 1944.Yugoslavian Partisans Headquarter send a group of commandos to destroy the bridge and hold up Germans.Hajrudin Siba Krvavac (sometimes called "Bosnian Raoul Walsh") was the best ex-YU action movie director."Most" ("The Bridge",on English)was his first big hit,followed (three years later)by his most famous masterpiece-"Valter brani Sarajevo"."Most" is totally in Siba's style: great fight scenes,plenty of action and very,very little (almost zero)stupidities about communism (that was regular in movies about Partisans made by other ex-YU directors).Actors are great,too.Bata Zivojinovic is very good in just another one of his numerous "German-soldiers-exterminating"roles.Slobodan Perovic (in the role of architect who creates the bridge and now must to destroy his masterpiece)is excellent,so as Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic,one of the most popular ex-YU supporting actors.Relja Basic(role of SS officer) show us that villain characters are not strange to him.Unfortunately,many people who worked on this film are not still alive (including director Hajrudin Siba Krvavac,and actors Slobodan Perovic,Jovan Janicijevic and Boro Begovic)and this comment is some kind of my hommage to them.

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