Breakthrough (1979)
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.
Cast
Sergeant Steiner
General Webster
Paul Anselm
Nissen
General Hofmann
Corporal Rothe
Schulze
SS Officer
Paramedic
Major Stransky
Krüger
Sergeant Anderson
Keppel
Colonel Rogers
Yvette
Captain Berger
Captain Kistner
Crew
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