1979
5.8 (28 votes)
1h 33m
Genres
Drama
History
War
Production Companies
Rapid Film
Breakthrough (Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II)
Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Hubert Lukowski, Wolf C. Hartwig
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Director of Photography: Tony Imi
Top Cast
Richard Burton
Sergeant Steiner
Rod Steiger
General Webster
Helmut Griem
Major Stransky
Klaus Löwitsch
Krüger
Michael Parks
Sergeant Anderson
Werner Pochath
Keppel
Robert Mitchum
Colonel Rogers
Véronique Vendell
Yvette
