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Breakthrough
Sign in to save1979 war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
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5.9Starting 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.
Released: 1979-03-0193 minDir: Andrew V. McLaglenDrama, History, WarPart of: Cross of Iron Collection
Stream on: Cultpix
Cast
- Richard Burton as Sergeant Steiner
- Rod Steiger as General Webster
- Robert Mitchum as Colonel Rogers
- Véronique Vendell as Yvette
- Werner Pochath as Keppel
- Klaus Löwitsch as Krüger
Themes
- assassination
- nazi
- world war ii
- normandy, france
- troops
- sequel
- adolf hitler
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