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The Fourth War (1990)
Directed by John Frankenheimer
“Two proud heroes with no one left to fight... But each other.”
Drama, Thriller, War · 1h 31m
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.
Cast
Roy Scheider
Col. Jack Knowles
Jürgen Prochnow
Col. Valachev
Tim Reid
Lt. Col. Clark
Lara Harris
Elena
Harry Dean Stanton
Gen. Hackworth
Dale Dye
Sergeant Major
William MacDonald
MP Corporal
David Palffy
Gawky Soldier
N
Neil Grahn
Needle-Nose Soldier
Ernie Jackson
Knowles Driver
R
Ron Campbell
Young US Soldier
J
John Dodds
Defector
Crew
- Director
- John Frankenheimer
- Screenplay
- Stephen Peters, Kenneth Ross
- Novel
- Stephen Peters
- Director of Photography
- Gerry Fisher
- Original Music Composer
- Bill Conti
- Editor
- Robert F. Shugrue
- Producer
- Wolf Schmidt
Details
- Release date
- 1990-01-12
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Russian, German, Czech, English
- Countries
- United States of America, Canada
- Production
- Aurora Production, Kodiak Films, The Cannon Group
- Box office
- $1,305,887