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

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