Another Bridge

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On the night of February 13, 1945, 1,800 Allied bombers flew over Dresden, Germany & started the infamous fire-bombing which destroyed the city & killed over 300,000 people in one night. Brigitte Barrell & her son, Alex, survived the bombing, but were separated when the Russian troops occupied the ruined city & arrested Brigitte. After her escape from the Russian jail, Brigitte began her four-month search for her small, three year old son. Trapped between the ever-advancing Russian & American lines, Brigitte hid in the forests during the day, searched for her son at night, & discovered her own strength as she searched through a hell of defeat & occupation, enduring hunger, homelessness, madness, & constant disappointment. Finally, in a climactic ending, Brigitte & her son are reunited. Brigitte Barrell has recrossed a bridge to her past to share an unusual & moving episode from her life among the ruins of wartime Germany. Far from being a tale of war, however, ANOTHER BRIDGE is the true story of a mother's love, & a testimony to the universal truth that, as she says, "Though men start wars, it is women & children who suffer them."