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Breakthrough(1979)

5.9(35)
1h 33m
1979-03-01

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.

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Keywords

assassinationnaziworld war iinormandy, france
troops
sequel
adolf hitler

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Top Cast

Richard Burton
Richard Burton
Sergeant Steiner
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger
General Webster
Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
Colonel Rogers
Véronique Vendell
Véronique Vendell
Yvette
Werner Pochath
Werner Pochath
Keppel
Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch
Krüger
Michael Parks
Michael Parks
Sergeant Anderson
Helmut Griem
Helmut Griem
Major Stransky
Curd Jürgens
Curd Jürgens
General Hofmann
Horst Janson
Horst Janson
Captain Berger
Joachim Hansen
Joachim Hansen
Captain Kistner
Dieter Schidor
Dieter Schidor
Paul Anselm
Bruno Dietrich
Bruno Dietrich
Nissen
Sieghardt Rupp
Sieghardt Rupp
Corporal Rothe
Hans-Jürgen Schatz
Hans-Jürgen Schatz
Schulze