What genre does *A Bridge Too Far* belong to?

The film is classified as an action film, war film, and drama film, reflecting its historical and combat-focused narrative.

Who directed *A Bridge Too Far*?

Richard Attenborough, a British actor and filmmaker, directed the film.

When was *A Bridge Too Far* released?

The film was released in 1977, with specific publication dates including October 20, 1977, and June 15, 1977.

Where was *A Bridge Too Far* produced?

The film was produced in the United Kingdom, an island country in north-west Europe.

Where was *A Bridge Too Far* distributed?

The film was distributed in the United States, a country located primarily in North America.

A Bridge Too Far

1977 film by Richard Attenborough

Movie Film Q467053

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36 properties

Instance of: film
Author: William Goldman^[1]
Director: Richard Attenborough^[2]
Genre: action film, war film, drama film^[6]^[7]^[8]
Publication date: October 20, 1977, June 15, 1977, June 24, 1977
Screenwriter: William Goldman, Cornelius Ryan^[3]^[4]
Based on: A Bridge Too Far^[9]
Producer: Joseph E. Levine^[24]
Duration: +168
After a work by: Cornelius Ryan
Assessment: Bechdel test
Box office: +50750000
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
Capital cost: +27000000
Cast member: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Michael Byrne, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Wolfgang Preiss, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann, Hardy Krüger, Paul Maxwell, Hans von Borsody, Walter Kohut, Denholm Elliott, Jeremy Kemp, Nicholas Campbell, Peter Faber, Paul Copley, Stephen Moore, John Stride, Alun Armstrong, Hartmut Becker, Garrick Hagon, Anthony Shaw, John Ratzenberger, Fred Williams, Simon Chandler, Ben Cross, Sean Mathias, Hilary Minster, Arthur Hill, Winston Churchill, Erwin Rommel, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Jodl, Donald Douglas, Gerald Sim, Donald Pickering, Christopher Good, Frank Grimes, Michael Graham Cox, Keith Drinkel, George Innes, David Auker, Lex van Delden, Erik Chitty, Richard Attenborough, Adolf Hitler^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]
Characters: Frederick Browning, Brian Horrocks, Roy Urquhart, Gerald Lathbury, Joe Vandeleur, John Frost, Giles Vandeleur, Digby Tatham-Warter, Brian Urquhart, Anthony Deane-Drummond, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, James Cleminson, Maxwell D. Taylor, James M. Gavin, Robert Sink, Julian Cook, James Megellas, Stanisław Sosabowski, Gerd von Rundstedt, Walter Model, Heinz Harmel, Wilhelm Bittrich, Günther Blumentritt, Viktor Eberhard Gräbner, Kate ter Horst, Winston Churchill, Erwin Rommel, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Jodl, Adolf Hitler
Color: color
Composer: John Addison^[5]
Country of origin: United Kingdom, United States
Depicts: 82nd Airborne Division^[25]
Director of photography: Geoffrey Unsworth^[26]
Distributed by: United Artists, Netflix
Distribution format: video on demand^[29]
FSK film rating: FSK 12

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Film editor: Antony Gibbs
Filmiroda rating: Category III
Has characteristic: film based on a book
Kijkwijzer rating: 12
MPA film rating: PG
Main subject: World War II
Narrative location: Netherlands
Original language of film or TV show: English, German^[27]^[28]
RARS rating: 18+
Review score: 6.1/10, 59%, 63/100^[30]
Set in period: 1944, World War II, 20th century, 1940s
Title: A Bridge Too Far

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GND ID: 1401058612
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ACMI ID: works/85054
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID: 56111
AllMovie title ID: v7107
Allcinema film ID: 15926
AlloCiné film ID: 30411
Amazon Standard Identification Number: B0030MTQNW
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.351j5o9jehlo5me9kfc29anvt
BBC programme ID: m0026dj0

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BFI National Archive work ID: 150048009
Bechdel Test Movie List ID: 2983
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 16458683t
Box Office Mojo film ID (former scheme): bridgetoofar
CANTIC ID: 981058516967806706
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DNF film ID: 6329
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EDb film ID: t0002987
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FilmAffinity film ID: 159721
FilmVandaag ID: film/11644
Filmfront film ID (archived): 3831
Filmová databáze film ID: 14101
Filmweb.no film ID: 34704
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Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/bridge_too_far
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Scope.dk film ID: 1261
Scripts.com script ID: 4682
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Swedish Film Database ID: 5098
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Cast member 48

Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Erwin Rommel, Michael Caine +40 more

Characters 28

Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Erwin Rommel, Alfred Jodl, Gerd von Rundstedt, Walter Model +20 more

Genre 3

action film, drama film, war film

Country of origin 2

United States, United Kingdom

Distributed by 2

Netflix, United Artists

Original language of film or TV show 2

English, German

Screenwriter 2

William Goldman, Cornelius Ryan

After a work by 1

Cornelius Ryan

Assessment 1

Bechdel test

Author 1

William Goldman

Based on 1

A Bridge Too Far

Composer 1

John Addison

Created notable works 1

Richard Attenborough

Director 1

Richard Attenborough

Director of photography 1

Geoffrey Unsworth

Distribution format 1

video on demand

Instance of 1

film

Main subject 1

World War II

Narrative location 1

Netherlands

Producer 1

Joseph E. Levine

Set in period 1

1944

← Derivative work 1

A Bridge Too Far

← Present in work 1

John Frost Bridge

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A Bridge Too Far is an action film^[1], war film^[1], film based on book^[1], and drama film^[1].

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[1] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — author (P50): William Goldman. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — director (P57): Richard Attenborough. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — screenwriter (P58): William Goldman. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — screenwriter (P58): Cornelius Ryan. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — composer (P86): John Addison. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — genre (P136): action film. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — genre (P136): war film. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — genre (P136): drama film. Retrieved 2019-05-27. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — based on (P144): A Bridge Too Far. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Dirk Bogarde. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): James Caan. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Michael Caine. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Michael Byrne. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Sean Connery. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Edward Fox. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Laurence Olivier. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Elliott Gould. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Gene Hackman. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Anthony Hopkins. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Ryan O'Neal. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Robert Redford. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Wolfgang Preiss. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — cast member (P161): Maximilian Schell. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — producer (P162): Joseph E. Levine. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — depicts (P180): 82nd Airborne Division. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — director of photography (P344): Geoffrey Unsworth. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — original language of film or TV show (P364): German. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — distribution format (P437): video on demand. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ A Bridge Too Far — review score (P444): 6.1/10. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2021-10-05. wikidata.org.

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