Movie
Breakthrough
Released: March 1, 1979 (1979)
Runtime: 93 minutes
Genres: 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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Curd Jürgens as General Hofmann
Age at release: 63
- Robert Mitchum as Colonel Rogers
Age at release: 61
- Richard Burton as Sergeant Steiner
Age at release: 53
- Rod Steiger as General Webster
Age at release: 53
- Helmut Griem as Major Stransky
Age at release: 46
- Horst Janson as Captain Berger
Age at release: 43
- Klaus Löwitsch as Krüger
Age at release: 42
- Werner Pochath as Keppel
Age at release: 39
- Michael Parks as Sergeant Anderson
Age at release: 38
- Véronique Vendell as Yvette
Age at release: 36
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- Günter Meisner as SS Officer
Age at release: 52
- Joachim Hansen as Captain Kistner
Age at release: 48
- Sieghardt Rupp as Corporal Rothe
Age at release: 47
- Bruno Dietrich as Nissen
Age at release: 39
- Dieter Schidor as Paul Anselm
Age at release: 30
- Christoph Waltz as Paramedic
Age at release: 22
- Hans-Jürgen Schatz as Schulze
Age at release: 20