Breakthrough
Watch breakthrough lookmovie. 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.
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Country: Germany
- Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
- Cast: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch, Michael Parks, Werner Pochath, Robert Mitchum, Véronique Vendell, Horst Janson, Joachim Hansen, Dieter Schidor, Bruno Dietrich