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Cross of Iron

71 %|Jan 29, 1977|Drama, Action, History, War

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

Featured Crew

Sam Peckinpah
Director
Willi Heinrich
Novel
Wolf C. Hartwig
Producer
Arlene Sellers
Producer
Alex Winitsky
Producer
Ernest Gold
Original Music Composer
John Coquillon
Director of Photography
Michael Ellis
Editor

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Cast

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James Coburn
Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
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Maximilian Schell
Hauptmann Stransky
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James Mason
Oberst Brandt
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David Warner
Hauptmann Kiesel
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Klaus Löwitsch
Unteroffizier Krüger
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Vadim Glowna
Gefreiter Kern
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Roger Fritz
Leutnant Treibig
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Burkhard Driest
Schütze Maag
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Fred Stillkrauth
Unteroffizier Schnurrbart
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Demeter Bitenc
Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited)
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Igor Galo
Leutnant Meyer (uncredited)
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Katherine Haber
Nurse Sadie Finkelstein (uncredited)
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Wolf C. Hartwig
Hartwig (uncredited)
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Wolfgang Hess
Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited)
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Sweeney MacArthur
Boy Soldier (uncredited)
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Irfan Mensur
Partizan Soldier (uncredited)
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Hermina Pipinić
Ruskinja (uncredited)
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Robert Rietti
German Officer (voice) (uncredited)
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Dragomir Stanojević
Corporal Joseph Keppler (uncredited)
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Slavko Štimac
Michail (uncredited)