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The first bridge at this site was built in 1691 as Kerkstraatbrug and had 13 arches. Because this bridge was very narrow, the locals called it magere brug, which literally means "skinny bridge". In 1871 the state of the bridge had deteriorated so much, it was demolished and replaced by a nine-arched wooden bridge.
The Bridge/Die Brücke was released on DVD in the UK, by Digital Classics DVD, on 19 October 2009 with English subtitles and a bonus film about director Bernhard Wicki. The film was issued in the US in June 2015 on Blu-ray and DVD by The Criterion Collection .
A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film directed by Richard Attenborough.It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan. [5]
In the three-part series, the story is told chronologically from the points of view of those close to Napolitano. This includes a complex of people who support her claim, which she has always maintained is accurate, including an interview with her son and representatives for the estate of Budd Hopkins, the author of the book about her titled Witness: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge ...
A Small Light is a biographical war drama miniseries about Miep Gies, a secretary who helped her Jewish employer Otto Frank, his family (including Anne Frank), and other Jewish refugees go into hiding after the German invasion of the Netherlands during the Second World War.
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The Berlagebrug (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛrlaːɣəˌbrʏx]; English: Berlage Bridge) is a bascule bridge over the river Amstel in Amsterdam, Netherlands.The bridge was commissioned by the Amsterdam municipality [2] and designed by engineer Cornelis Biemond [] (1899-1980) and architect Hendrikus Petrus Berlage (1856–1934); it was named after the latter.
The bridge owes its name to a wooden "blue bridge" that was there from around 1600 but no longer exists and which was painted the characteristic blue of the Dutch flag. It kept the name after 1883 when it was replaced by the spans of a new bridge which is inspired by the architecture of several of the bridges over the Seine in Paris such as ...