The Bridge (Allied Artists), adapted from the novel by Manfred Gregor, is a skillful and ferocious West German film (with English subtitles) that examines one of the more horrible absurdities of World War II: the war's end draft of German schoolboys, none of them trained, many of them thrown into Hitler's crumbling defenses as "human sandbags."
Seven German schoolboys, all 16, all in the same small-town classroom, are called to the colors on the same day: April 27, 1945. The first half of the film expounds the character and background of the boys with...
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