Breakthrough
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.
Breakthrough (1979)
Andrew V. McLaglen
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Countries
Germany
Ratings
TMDB users
5.9/10
35 votes
Rating consensus
59/100 blend
Sources: TMDB
Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~59/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
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
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Breakthrough (1979)
Andrew V. McLaglen
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