Breakthrough

    Breakthrough
    1979

    Synopsis

    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 BurtonSergeant Steiner
    • Rod SteigerGeneral Webster
    • Helmut GriemMajor Stransky
    • Klaus LöwitschKrüger
    • Michael ParksSergeant Anderson
    • Werner PochathKeppel
    • Robert MitchumColonel Rogers
    • Véronique VendellYvette
    • Horst JansonCaptain Berger
    • Joachim HansenCaptain Kistner

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