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Breakthrough

Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!

1979★ 5.8 · 361h 33mDramaHistoryWar

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.

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Christoph Waltz
as Paramedic

Michael Parks
as Sergeant Anderson

Richard Burton
as Sergeant Steiner

Robert Mitchum
as Colonel Rogers

Curd Jürgens
as General Hofmann

Rod Steiger
as General Webster

Véronique Vendell
as Yvette

Klaus Löwitsch
as Krüger

Werner Pochath
as Keppel

Helmut Griem
as Major Stransky

Günter Meisner
as SS Officer

Horst Janson
as Captain Berger

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Release date: 1979-03-01

Runtime: 1h 33m

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DramaHistoryWar

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