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.

Cast

Richard Burton

Richard Burton

as Sergeant Steiner

Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger

as General Webster

Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem

as Major Stransky

Klaus Löwitsch

Klaus Löwitsch

as Krüger

Michael Parks

Michael Parks

as Sergeant Anderson

Werner Pochath

Werner Pochath

as Keppel

Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

as Colonel Rogers

Véronique Vendell

Véronique Vendell

as Yvette

Horst Janson

Horst Janson

as Captain Berger

Joachim Hansen

Joachim Hansen

as Captain Kistner

Reviews

CinemaSerf

On paper, this ought to have been a belter. Andrew V. McLaglen being no stranger to grand scale cinema and a cast of Hollywood A-listers to deliver a story of wartime betrayal and courage. So what happened? Richard Burton dons a rather erratic German accent as the conspiring and rather hot-tempered ...

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