Does Breakthrough put anything after the cast list?

Watch Breakthrough here

The complete list →

Unanswered so far, Breakthrough

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.

On screen and behind the camera

Filmmakers

Cast

TMDB user reviews

CinemaSerf

On paper, this ought to have been a belter. Andrew V. McLaglen being no stranger to grand scale cinema and a cast of Hollywood A-listers to deliver a story of wartime betrayal and courage. So what happened? Richard Burton dons a rather erratic German accent as the conspiring and rather hot-tempered sergeant "Steiner" who finds himself under the command of his own personal nemesis "Von Stransky" (Helmut Griem). Fortunately, for him, at the behest of his scheming general "Hofmann" (Curd Jürgens) he is despatched to try and make some sort of truce with the approaching allies at the height of the Wehrmacht's conspiracies to be rid of their Führer. Along the way he manages to help out American co…

Read on TMDB

Privacy policy

When you vote, we save your Yes or No answer and when you voted.

We use a cookie and your internet address to recognize your vote on each movie. This prevents repeat votes. The cookie lasts for five years.

Your votes are kept as part of the movie totals.