# Under the Bridges > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Under_the_Bridges > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Under_the_Bridges.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Bridges > Source revision: 1355510971 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1946 film directed by Helmut Käutner This article is about the 1946 film. For the Red Hot Chili Peppers song, see [Under the Bridge](/source/Under_the_Bridge). Under the Bridges Film poster Directed by Helmut Käutner Written by Leo de Laforgue Helmut Käutner Walter Ulbrich Produced by Walter Ulbrich Starring Hannelore Schroth Carl Raddatz Gustav Knuth Margarete Haagen Cinematography Igor Oberberg Edited by Wolfgang Wehrum Music by Bernhard Eichhorn Production companies UFA Terra Film Distributed by Gloria Film Release date 1 September 1946 (1946-09-01) Running time 99 minutes Country Germany Language German ***Under the Bridges*** ([German](/source/German_language): ***Unter den Brücken***) is a 1946 German drama film directed by [Helmut Käutner](/source/Helmut_K%C3%A4utner) and starring [Hannelore Schroth](/source/Hannelore_Schroth), [Carl Raddatz](/source/Carl_Raddatz) and [Gustav Knuth](/source/Gustav_Knuth). The film was shot in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) during the summer of 1944, but was not released until after the defeat of [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany). It premiered in [Locarno](/source/Locarno) in September 1946, and was not released in Germany until 1950 when it was picked up for distribution by [Gloria Film](/source/Gloria_Film).[1] The film uses [poetic realism](/source/Poetic_realism) to portray the everyday lives and romances of two [Havel](/source/Havel) boatmen.[2] In 1995, a survey among more than 300 film experts voted *Unter den Brücken* at No. 18 of the 100 most important German films.[3] ## Cast - [Hannelore Schroth](/source/Hannelore_Schroth) as Anna Altmann - [Carl Raddatz](/source/Carl_Raddatz) as Hendrik Feldkamp - [Gustav Knuth](/source/Gustav_Knuth) as Willy - [Margarete Haagen](/source/Margarete_Haagen) as Landlady - [Ursula Grabley](/source/Ursula_Grabley) as Vera, a waitress - [Hildegard Knef](/source/Hildegard_Knef) as Girl in Havelberg - [Walter Gross](/source/Walter_Gross_(actor)) as Man on the bridge - [Helene Westphal](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helene_Westphal&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Hildegard König](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hildegard_K%C3%B6nig&action=edit&redlink=1) - [Erich Dunskus](/source/Erich_Dunskus) as Holl, ship captain - [Klaus Pohl](/source/Klaus_Pohl_(actor)) as Museum's employee - [Helmuth Helsig](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helmuth_Helsig&action=edit&redlink=1) as Muhlke - Café owner ## See also - [Überläufer](/source/%C3%9Cberl%C3%A4ufer) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kreimeier p. 355 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Kreimeier p. 355 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [*Fiafnet.org*](https://web.archive.org/web/20150605042344/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf) (pdf), p. 41 ## Bibliography - Kreimeier, Klaus. *The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945*. [University of California Press](/source/University_of_California_Press), 1999. ## External links - [*Under the Bridges*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038206/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Unter den Brücken*](https://archive.org/details/UnterDenBruecken1945HelmutKautner) Full movie with English subtitles at Deutsche Filmothek v t e Films directed by Helmut Käutner Kitty and the World Conference (1939) Clothes Make the Man (1940) Woman Made to Measure (1940) We Make Music (1942) Anuschka (1942) Romance in a Minor Key (1943) Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944) Under the Bridges (1946) In Those Days (1947) The Original Sin (1948) Royal Children (1950) White Shadows (1951) Captain Bay-Bay (1953) The Last Bridge (1954) Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954) Ludwig II (1955) The Devil's General (1955) Sky Without Stars (1955) The Girl from Flanders (1956) The Captain from Köpenick (1956) Love from Paris (1957) The Rest Is Silence (1959) The Goose of Sedan (1959) A Glass of Water (1960) Black Gravel (1961) The Dream of Lieschen Mueller (1961) Redhead (1962) The House in Montevideo (1963) Tales of a Young Scamp (1964) Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970) This article related to a German film of the 1940s is a stub. 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