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Breakthrough

5.7 93 mins Drama   History   War   1979
Rapid Film  
Director(s): Andrew V. McLaglen

Release Date: 01 Thu, Mar 1979

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.

Casts of Breakthrough

Richard Burton

as Sergeant Steiner

Rod Steiger

as General Webster

Robert Mitchum

as Colonel Rogers

Werner Pochath

as Keppel

Klaus Löwitsch

as Krüger

Michael Parks

as Sergeant Anderson

Helmut Griem

as Major Stransky

Curd Jürgens

as General Hofmann

Horst Janson

as Captain Berger

Joachim Hansen

as Captain Kistner

Dieter Schidor

as Paul Anselm

Bruno Dietrich

as Nissen

Sieghardt Rupp

as Corporal Rothe

Günter Meisner

as SS Officer

Christoph Waltz

as Paramedic

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