The Last Bridge | |
Director: | Helmut Käutner |
Producer: | Carl Szokoll |
Starring: | Maria Schell Bernhard Wicki Barbara Rütting |
Music: | Karl de Groof |
Cinematography: | Elio Carniel |
Editing: | Hermine Diethelm Paula Dvorak |
Studio: | Cosmopol-Film UFUS |
Distributor: | Columbia Film |
Runtime: | 102 minutes |
Country: | Austria Yugoslavia |
Language: | German |
The Last Bridge (de|'''Die Letzte Brücke''') is a 1954 Austrian-Yugoslavian war drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki and Barbara Rütting.[1] The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
A German nurse is captured by Yugoslav partisans, and with her devotion to medical duty finds herself with divided loyalty to both sides of the conflict.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Pischinger and Wolf Witzemann. Location shooting took place in Mostar, Počitelj and other locations along the Neretva valley in Bosnia.