A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge.

• François Goeske
• Franka Potente
• Lars Steinhöfel
• Robert Höller
• Paula Schramm
• Felix von Manteuffel
• Florian Heppert
• Michael Lott