
Breakthrough
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Release Date: 1979-03-01
Drama
History
War
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Casts

Richard Burton
as Sergeant Steiner

Rod Steiger
as General Webster

Helmut Griem
as Major Stransky

Klaus Löwitsch
as Krüger

Michael Parks
as Sergeant Anderson

Werner Pochath
as Keppel

Robert Mitchum
as Colonel Rogers

Véronique Vendell
as Yvette

Horst Janson
as Captain Berger

Joachim Hansen
as Captain Kistner