Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Breakthrough

5.7/ 10

TMDB Rating

32

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1979

Release Year

93 min

Runtime

Drama

History

War

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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Keywords

assassination

nazi

world war ii

normandy, france

troops

sequel

adolf hitler

Cast

Richard Burton

Richard Burton

Sergeant Steiner

Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger

General Webster

Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

Colonel Rogers

Véronique Vendell

Véronique Vendell

Yvette

Werner Pochath

Werner Pochath

Keppel

Klaus Löwitsch

Klaus Löwitsch

Krüger

Michael Parks

Michael Parks

Sergeant Anderson

Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem

Major Stransky

Curd Jürgens

Curd Jürgens

General Hofmann

Horst Janson

Horst Janson

Captain Berger

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

November 3, 2023

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6/10

On paper, this ought to have been a belter. Andrew V. McLaglen being no stranger to grand scale cinema and a cast of Hollywood A-listers to deliver a story of wartime betrayal and courage. So what happened? Richard Burton dons a rather erratic German accent as the conspiring and rather hot-tempered …

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