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Release Date: 1977

Cast: Vadim Glowna, James Mason, Klaus Löwitsch, Maximilian Schell, David Warner, James Coburn, Fred Stillkrauth, Slavko Štimac, Burkhard Driest, Dieter Schidor, Senta Berger, Roger Fritz ...MORE

Cast: Vadim Glowna, James Mason, Klaus Löwitsch, Maximilian Schell, David Warner, James Coburn, Fred Stillkrauth, Slavko Štimac, Burkhard Driest, Dieter Schidor, Senta Berger, Roger Fritz, Michael Nowka ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Combat Films, War Film, Action, Action/Adventure, Drama Film

Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. The film is set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviet's Caucasus operations that forced the Wehrmacht to retreat from the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea in late 1943. The film focuses on the class conflict between a newly-arrived, aristocratic Prussian officer who covets winning the Iron Cross and a cynical, battle-hardened infantry NCO. The screenplay was based on the 1956 novel The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich, a fictional work that... MORE

Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. The film is set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviet's Caucasus operations that forced the Wehrmacht to retreat from the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea in late 1943. The film focuses on the class conflict between a newly-arrived, aristocratic Prussian officer who covets winning the Iron Cross and a cynical, battle-hardened infantry NCO. The screenplay was based on the 1956 novel The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich, a fictional work that may be loosely based on the true story of Johann Schwerdfeger, a highly-decorated World War II Wehrmacht Oberfeldwebel. The film is notable in portraying many aspects of the Second World War not found in other English language productions such as: depicting conflict between Wehrmacht's non-commissioned and commissioned officers, within a low level battalion chain of command, in an ordinary infantry unit, not involving armour, and set during a German retreat following the Crimean Offensive on the Eastern Front, an operation relatively unknown in the West. The plot is in no way connected to either the LESS