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Cross of Iron

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Cross of Iron
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R,2hrs 10min
Genres:
War,Drama
Released:
January 1, 1977
Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Distributor:
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Starring:
James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason  ...more
Synopsis: A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the book by Willi Heinrich), is a World War II tale told from the German perspective, following a platoon of German soldiers in the Russia of 1943, when the German Wehrmacht forces had been decimated and the ... Full Synopsis
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Donald Guarisco, AMG Review
Sam Peckinpah's only war film has intensity and action to spare, but sadly lacks the consistency and scope of classics like The Wild Bunch. The best feature of Cross of Iron is its stellar cast. James Coburn keeps Steiner from becoming a macho cliché by investing him with a tormented soulfulness, Maximillian Schell hits the right blend of snobbery and sociopathic deviousness as the autocratic Stransky ... Full Review
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James Coburn
Sgt. Steiner
Maximilian Schell
Capt. Stransky
James Mason
Col. Brandt
David Warner
Capt. Kiesel
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