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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.
Breakthrough: Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch. In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.
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- Drama, War
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- 1979-02
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In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel. In 1944 German sergeant Rolf Steiner is on the Russian Front where out of frustration he hits an officer. Steiner is sent on leave to Paris to avoid further incidents.
A German officer becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in this sequel to "Cross of Iron.".
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- Andrew V. Mclaglen
- PG
- Richard Burton
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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Breakthrough is a film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen with Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum, Véronique Vendell .... Year: 1979. Original title: Breakthrough (Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil).
