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Cross of Iron
1977, Jan 29
2h 12m
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Directed by
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn
Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
James Mason
Oberst Brandt
David Warner
Hauptmann Kiesel
Slavko Štimac
Michail (uncredited)
Senta Berger
Eva
Burkhard Driest
Schütze Maag
Véronique Vendell
Marga
Irfan Mensur
Partizan Soldier (uncredited)
Arthur Brauss
Zoll
Fred Stillkrauth
Unteroffizier Schnurrbart
Demeter Bitenc
Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited)
Maximilian Schell
Hauptmann Stransky
Vadim Glowna
Gefreiter Kern
Robert Rietti
German Officer (voice) (uncredited)
Klaus Löwitsch
Unteroffizier Krüger
Roger Fritz
Leutnant Treibig
Dieter Schidor
Anselm
Hermina Pipinić
Ruskinja (uncredited)
Dragomir Stanojević
Corporal Joseph Keppler (uncredited)
Igor Galo
Leutnant Meyer (uncredited)
Michael Nowka
Dietz
Wolfgang Hess
Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited)
Sweeney MacArthur
Boy Soldier (uncredited)
Walter Kelley
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