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Breakthrough (1979)
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
“Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!”
Drama, History, War · 1h 33m
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Cast
Richard Burton
Sergeant Steiner
Rod Steiger
General Webster
Robert Mitchum
Colonel Rogers
V
Véronique Vendell
Yvette
Werner Pochath
Keppel
Klaus Löwitsch
Krüger
Michael Parks
Sergeant Anderson
Helmut Griem
Major Stransky
Curd Jürgens
General Hofmann
Horst Janson
Captain Berger
Joachim Hansen
Captain Kistner
Dieter Schidor
Paul Anselm
Crew
- Director
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- Director of Photography
- Tony Imi
- Original Music Composer
- Peter Thomas
- Editor
- Raymond Poulton, Helga Borsche, Herbert Taschner
- Producer
- Wolf C. Hartwig, Hubert Lukowski
Details
- Original title
- Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II
- Release date
- 1979-03-01
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, French, German, Russian
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Rapid Film, Taurus Film, Palladium