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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.

Date: 03/01/1979

Rating: 5.8

Cast: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch, Michael Parks, Werner Pochath, Robert Mitchum, Véronique Vendell, Horst Janson, Joachim Hansen, Dieter Schidor, Bruno Dietrich, Curd Jürgens, Sieghardt Rupp, Hans-Jürgen Schatz, Günter Meisner, Christoph Waltz

Richard Burton