Drama Action History War
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
David Warner
Hauptmann Kiesel
James Mason
Oberst Brandt
Maximilian Schell
Hauptmann Stransky
Senta Berger
Eva
Klaus Löwitsch
Unteroffizier Krüger
Arthur Brauss
Zoll
Robert Rietti
German Officer (voice) (uncredited)
Vadim Glowna
Gefreiter Kern
Slavko Štimac
Michail (uncredited)
Véronique Vendell
Marga
Dieter Schidor
Anselm
Burkhard Driest
Schütze Maag
Igor Galo
Leutnant Meyer (uncredited)
Demeter Bitenc
Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited)
Roger Fritz
Leutnant Treibig
Irfan Mensur
Partizan Soldier (uncredited)
Dragomir Stanojević
Corporal Joseph Keppler (uncredited)
Fred Stillkrauth
Unteroffizier Schnurrbart
Wolfgang Hess
Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited)
Hermina Pipinić
Ruskinja (uncredited)
Michael Nowka
Dietz
Sweeney MacArthur
Boy Soldier (uncredited)
Walter Kelley

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