Breakthrough

1979 "Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!"

Breakthrough

5 | 1h51m | PG | en | Drama

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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5 | 1h51m | PG | en | Drama , History , War

Synopsis

Cast

Richard Burton ,Rod Steiger ,Helmut Griem

Director

Tony Imi

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Cast

Richard Burton

as Sergeant Steiner

[2006] Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage! [1988] Absolution [1984] Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] Ellis Island [1983] Wagner [1979] Breakthrough [1978] The Wild Geese [1978] The Medusa Touch [1977] The Voyage

Rod Steiger

as General Webster

[2004] Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust [2003] Poolhall Junkies [2002] The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller [2002] The Kid [2001] The Hollywood Sign [2001] Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World [2001] The Last Producer [1999] Crazy in Alabama [1998] Modern Vampires

Helmut Griem

as Major Stransky

[2018] Ludwig [1990] The Plot to Kill Hitler [1986] Peter the Great [1979] Breakthrough [1978] Germany in Autumn [1978] The Glass Cell [1976] The Desert of the Tartars [1972] Cabaret [1970] The McKenzie Break