
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
Tony Williamson
Author
Peter Berneis
Author
Helga Borsche
Editor
Herbert Taschner
Editor
Raymond Poulton
Editor

Tony Imi
Director of Photography
Ludwig Spitaler
Executive Producer

Ted Richmond
Executive Producer
Hubert Lukowski
Producer
Wolf C. Hartwig
Producer

Peter Thomas
Original Music Composer
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