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

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