Breakthrough

5.9

Germany

Drama History War

93 min

1979

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

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.