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

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