Breakthrough
Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II
Release: 1979-03-01
·Runtime: 93m
·★ 5.7
Drama
History
War
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.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Rapid Film
Cast
Rod Steiger
as General Webster
Robert Mitchum
as Colonel Rogers
Véronique Vendell
as Yvette
Michael Parks
as Sergeant Anderson
Bruno Dietrich
as Nissen
Hans-Jürgen Schatz
as Schulze
Werner Pochath
as Keppel
Helmut Griem
as Major Stransky
Curd Jürgens
as General Hofmann
Horst Janson
as Captain Berger
Joachim Hansen
as Captain Kistner
Sieghardt Rupp
as Corporal Rothe
Günter Meisner
as SS Officer
Christoph Waltz
as Paramedic
Richard Burton
as Sergeant Steiner
Klaus Löwitsch
as Krüger
Dieter Schidor
as Paul Anselm
