The Bridge at Remagen

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Summary: A well acted, realistic portrayal of a true WWII event
Review: This is a well directed and well acted depiction of the events that happen around and on the last remaining bridge on the river Rhine - the Ludendorf bridge, in Remagen, Germany. Historically, this was the first allied crossing point on the Rhine in March, 1945. In the Spring of 1945 to quell the Western Allies advance on a broad front inside Germany, Hitler orders all bridges on the Rhine to be blown. However, one bridge at Remagen remains intact, being kept open by a handful of Germans to allow their 15th Army to retreat from the Western side. Demolition charges are installed and the order is given to blow the bridge as American infantrymen are ordered to cross and take it. It is one of the better war films, realistic in its portrayal of men trying to go beyond the call of duty, on both sides. To make the film, a nearly identical bridge to the Ludendorf was located in Czeckoslovakia. The occupying Russian troops in 1968 forced the film crew to leave, and the film was finished elsewhere on location in Italy.

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Summary: A Definite A
Review: This movie is great....I consider my self a collector of war movies and this has got to be in my Top 10.....It's got tons of action and good acting....The story is great as are the effects. I would recommend this movie to anyone who has a flair for WWII films....Another good one is "A Bridge Too Far"

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Summary: Impressive
Review: This really is a very well done movie, both technically and acting wise. It helped having the author, Ken Hechler, who wrote the defining story of the bridge, as a technical advisor. What truly impressed me was the location of the filming. The Czech locale was amazingly close to the actual German location in appearance. I watched this movie again the other day, then drove the hour and a half up to Remagen ( I'm currently temporarily in Kaiserslautern Germany ), and walked up on the ruins of the bridge. Standing there, I really gained appreciation for the attempt the film makers made to find a similar locale. They really hit close.

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Summary: Hollywood or History
Review: Unfortunatily this movie was to say the least, a disapointment. It does not cover many of the events that actually happend at Remagen or the fight for the bridge. It was also unrealistic. First of all, by the time the Germans had counter attacked the Allies were well supplied and moving in more troops by the hour on the hour. The fight was fanatically desperate for the Germans not the Americans. Desperate attacks took place including many artillery barages. The counter attack the Germans attempted failed. The only real fight occured taking the bridge not holding it. If you like action get it. If you like history dont.

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Summary: Exceptional cast, excellent plot
Review: Unlike most WW2 movies, this movie gave exceptional portrays of personalities of the characters. This movie is also very well-balanced on both the US and the German sides.
Captain Hartman, Major Kreuger and Captain Schmidt were very well portrayed as heroic and intelligent officers; during combat, they stood at the front with their men; they cared about their responsibilities and the needs of their men instead of their careers.
Captain Barnes and the nazi SS general were also well-portrayed as career-minded officers, who are yes-men to their superiors, they always avoided combat, they cared nothing about their subordinates, but only focused on blaming and demanding them instead.
This movies have done a great job in telling the tensions and politics amongst the ranks in an army (both the US and German), and the emotional aspects during a war as well, e.g. the short story of the war-torn French girl, the story inside the apartment of Mr Holzgang, Captain Hartman lost nearly all his comrades, Jeligo shot a young fanatical nazi boy, great courages of soldiers on both sides in dangerous missions.
Perhaps the most exceptional feature of this movie is that, it brought to the stage the untold humanistic stories of the war-weary German civilians and soldiers, e.g. helpless civilians under air bombardment, purges on officers by the nazi, boys and old men being deployed for city defense, trains of wounded soldiers waiting for crossing the bridge before it was demolished, exhausted soldiers trying to desert etc,
This is one of the very few movies that truly tell WW2 stories and battles.

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Summary: not have engish closed captioned!
Review: what you think that only spanish and french closed captioned in america? that so absurd. i am not spanish or french guy. you got that! i am engish. i am live in america. what if you are america deaf guy and what you will say about yourself? huh mmm let me kow. thanks! here is my e=mail is [e-mail]

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Summary: The evolution of great war pictures.
Review: You can see the breakings of the old style war pictures the gee golly happy to be here fighting the war types. This is a great picture you can really believe the characters in the movie are real, their all tired and weary and want the war over, and don't want to die in its last days on either side. George Segal who is known best for his comedy plays a war weary company commander and does the role justice. The basis of the movie is that the germans are trying to get whats left of their devastated army across the Rhine , and the Americans are trying to secure a crossing to get into the heart of germany and end the war. There are alot of very realistic scenes, one that impressed upon me is the german civilians with all there worldy posessions trying to get across the remagen bridge while american b-25,s are bombing it to soften it up for the advancing ground troops. For a world war two picture wide in scope and believable buy this movie.