Breakthrough

1h 33m
DramaHistoryWar
5.7

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

Crew

Andrew V. McLaglen
Director
Peter Berneis
Author
Tony Williamson
Author
Helga Borsche
Editor
Raymond Poulton
Editor
Herbert Taschner
Editor
Tony Imi
Director of Photography
Ted Richmond
Executive Producer
Ludwig Spitaler
Executive Producer
Wolf C. Hartwig
Producer
Hubert Lukowski
Producer
Peter Thomas
Original Music Composer

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