Movie: Breakthrough

Drama
History
War

Overview: 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.

Release Date: 1979-03-01

Rating: 5.8

Casts


Richard Burton

Sergeant Steiner

Rod Steiger

General Webster

Robert Mitchum

Colonel Rogers

Véronique Vendell

Yvette

Werner Pochath

Keppel

Klaus Löwitsch

Krüger