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Breakthrough

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

5.8(39)19791h 33m2

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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Released
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Box office
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Language
English
Part of Cross of Iron Collection · 2 films
  • assassination
  • nazi
  • world war ii
  • normandy, france
  • troops
  • sequel
  • adolf hitler

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  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical161 Mar 1979

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Breakthrough was released on 1 March 1979.

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    CinemaSerf

    11/3/2023

    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 sergeant "Steiner" who finds himself under the command of his own personal nemesis "Von Stransky" (Helmut Griem). Fortun…

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