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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.

1979 |1h 33m |  Drama, History, War

Cast

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Richard Burton

Sergeant Steiner

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Rod Steiger

General Webster

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Helmut Griem

Major Stransky

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Klaus Löwitsch

Krüger

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Michael Parks

Sergeant Anderson

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Werner Pochath

Keppel

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Robert Mitchum

Colonel Rogers

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Véronique Vendell

Yvette

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Horst Janson

Captain Berger

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Joachim Hansen

Captain Kistner

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Dieter Schidor

Paul Anselm

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Curd Jürgens

General Hofmann

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Sieghardt Rupp

Corporal Rothe

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Hans-Jürgen Schatz

Schulze

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Günter Meisner

SS Officer

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Christoph Waltz

Paramedic

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Status

Released

Language

English, French, German, Russian

Budget

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