Breakthrough
Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!
5.8 / 10
93 minutes
1979-03-01
English
DE
Actors :
Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch, Michael Parks, Werner Pochath, Robert Mitchum, Véronique Vendell, Horst Janson, Joachim Hansen, Dieter Schidor, Bruno Dietrich, Curd Jürgens, Sieghardt Rupp, Hans-Jürgen Schatz
Description
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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CinemaSerf
11/3/2023, 9:59:02 AM
On paper, this ought to have been a belter. Andrew V. McLaglen being no stranger to grand scale cinema and a cast of Hollywood A-listers to deliver a story of wartime betrayal and courage. So what happened? Richard Burton dons a rather erratic German accent as the conspiring and rather hot-tempered sergeant "Steiner" who finds himself under the command of his own personal nemesis "Von Stransky" (H...