

Breakthrough
Original Title: “Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II”
“Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!”
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.
Top 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
Key Film Crew
Production Stats
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