The Zupanja Bridge
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Zupanja Bridge |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Philipp |
| script |
August Rieger Hans Munkel |
| production |
Franz Antel Hans Pflüger |
| music | Peter Thomas |
| camera | Helmut Meewes |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
| occupation | |
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Die Brücke von Zupanja is a German war film from 1975 by Harald Philipp with Sascha Hehn and Christian Kohlund in the leading roles.
action
Yugoslavia in 1944, in the late stages of World War II. The German Wehrmacht is in retreat. A wildly thrown together bunch of eight German soldiers: Sergeant Schuster, Lieutenant Schnell, NCOs Haake and Lindner and a major - all very different types - are ordered to go to Županja , a place in eastern Croatia . They set off with two trucks with plenty of gasoline and a considerable amount of dynamite on board. Because the men have the task of blowing up the eponymous bridge over the Save in that small provincial town in order to secure the retreat of their own people and at the same time prevent the advance of the Yugoslav partisans of Tito . But the enemy has already been informed and wants to lure the Germans into an ambush, because the Yugoslavs also want to get hold of the explosives. In the end, the German troops are surrounded by the partisans on a mission to hell, a life and death duel seems inevitable.
Production notes
The Zupanja Bridge opened in German cinemas on October 31, 1975.
Kurt Kodal was in charge of production, the film construction was created by Robert Fabiankovich and Herwig Pollak .
Reviews
"Magnificent volumes about tanks, weapons, warplanes and military branches at all station bookstores, films such as 'Operation Lady Marlene', ' Champagne from the Knobelbecher ', ' The Fifth Offensive ' and a lot of re-titled things from the fifties in the cinema: a strange 08 / 15-Renaissance, the soldiers come again. Philipp, with a relevant charge ('Brandenburg Division', 'Penal Battalion 999'), staged the siege of two trucks by partisans in Yugoslavia in 1944 like a ridiculous Indian game, simple-minded and boring, with the old types (madman, awkward student with nickel glasses, ambitious tinsel -Charge) and the old sayings ('All right? We can do it, men'). A Yugoslav woman in love speaks German like German pop stars on television, and the fat guy is happy: 'Oh Maxe - finally back to the old bunch!' "
"An extremely stupid German B-production, which in the seemingly endless preamble poses as an 'anti-war film'."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The bridge at Zupanja. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 17, 2016 .
Web links
- The Bridge of Zupanja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bridge from Zupanja at filmportal.de