Breakthrough (1979)
Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II
Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!
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.
- Date of release
- 1979-03-01
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama, History, War
- Director
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- Collection
- Cross of Iron Collection
Casting
- Richard Burton — Sergeant Steiner
- Rod Steiger — General Webster
- Robert Mitchum — Colonel Rogers
- 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
Interesting facts
Breakthrough, also released as Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2 and Sergeant Steiner is a 1979 war film set on the Western Front, specifically the Normandy coastline. The picture is a sequel to Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, and includes several characters from that film.
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