Breakthrough (5.8)

Movie · 1979 · 1 h 32 min · Drama, History, War

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.

Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen

Starring Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum, Véronique Vendell, Werner Pochath, Klaus Löwitsch, Michael Parks, Helmut Griem, Curd Jürgens, Horst Janson

Stream in the US