Cross of Iron
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1977
2h 12m
R
English
Drama, Action, History, War
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Cross of Iron
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
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Cast
Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Stei...
Hauptmann Stransky
Oberst Brandt
Hauptmann Kiesel
Unteroffizier Krüger
Gefreiter Kern
Leutnant Treibig
Anselm
Schütze Maag
Unteroffizier Schnurrbart
Dietz
Marga
Zoll
Eva
Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited)
Leutnant Meyer (uncredited)
Nurse Sadie Finkelstein (uncredited...
Hartwig (uncredited)
Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited)
Boy Soldier (uncredited)
Partizan Soldier (uncredited)
Ruskinja (uncredited)
German Officer (voice) (uncredited)
Corporal Joseph Keppler (uncredited...
Michail (uncredited)
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
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John Chard
5 years ago
War is Peckinpah's survival hell.
Out on the Eastern Front 1943, battered by the war itself, a war they are losing, a platoon of German soldiers must also cope with a new aristocratic commander who deeply covets the Cross Of Iron, Germany's highest medal of honour.
Universally hated and panned More
Out on the Eastern Front 1943, battered by the war itself, a war they are losing, a platoon of German soldiers must also cope with a new aristocratic commander who deeply covets the Cross Of Iron, Germany's highest medal of honour.
Universally hated and panned More
Wuchak
one year ago
**_Brutal Germans vs. Russians WW2 flick with James Coburn and Maximilian Schell_**
As defeat looms on the Eastern Front, an awarded, but battle-worn German NCO (Coburn) vies with a newly-appointed captain, a Prussian aristocrat, who’s obsessed with obtaining the Iron Cross (Schell), even if he More
As defeat looms on the Eastern Front, an awarded, but battle-worn German NCO (Coburn) vies with a newly-appointed captain, a Prussian aristocrat, who’s obsessed with obtaining the Iron Cross (Schell), even if he More
CinemaSerf
3 months ago
The aristocratic "Capt. Stransky" (Maximilian Schell) is put in charge of an accomplished squadron of men that works well under its no-nonsense "Sgt. Steiner" (James Coburn), and into battle against the approaching Soviets they go. A bloody encounter ensues and upon their return, victorious to a poi More
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