Film

Breakthrough 1979

93 min TMDB 5.8 Drama History War

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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Cast

  • Richard Burton as Sergeant Steiner
  • Rod Steiger as General Webster
  • Robert Mitchum as Colonel Rogers
  • Véronique Vendell as Yvette
  • Werner Pochath as Keppel
  • Klaus Löwitsch as Krüger

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