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Summary

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.

Details

Release Date: March 1, 1979

Runtime: 93 minutes

Genres: Drama, History, War

Rating: 5.8/10 (28 votes)


Cross of Iron Collection

  • Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron

    It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

  • Breakthrough

    Breakthrough

    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.


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Cast

  • Richard Burton

    Richard Burton

    Sergeant Steiner

  • Rod Steiger

    Rod Steiger

    General Webster

  • Helmut Griem

    Helmut Griem

    Major Stransky

  • Klaus Löwitsch

    Klaus Löwitsch

    Krüger

  • Michael Parks

    Michael Parks

    Sergeant Anderson

  • Werner Pochath

    Werner Pochath

    Keppel

  • Robert Mitchum

    Robert Mitchum

    Colonel Rogers

  • Véronique Vendell

    Véronique Vendell

    Yvette

  • Horst Janson

    Horst Janson

    Captain Berger

  • Joachim Hansen

    Joachim Hansen

    Captain Kistner

  • Dieter Schidor

    Dieter Schidor

    Paul Anselm

  • Bruno Dietrich

    Bruno Dietrich

    Nissen

  • Curd Jürgens

    Curd Jürgens

    General Hofmann

  • Sieghardt Rupp

    Sieghardt Rupp

    Corporal Rothe

  • Hans-Jürgen Schatz

    Hans-Jürgen Schatz

    Schulze

  • Günter Meisner

    Günter Meisner

    SS Officer

  • Christoph Waltz

    Christoph Waltz

    Paramedic