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Vaskereszt - Cross of Iron DVD 1977 / Directed by Sam Peckinpah / Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner

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Vaskereszt - Cross of Iron DVD 1977 / Directed by Sam Peckinpah / Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner

UPC 5999544560833  /  5999016344275

IPH 4024

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN Germany

Audio:  English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0, French 2.0

Subtitles:  Hungarian

Runtime: 127 minutes

 

English Summary:

Cross of Iron (German: Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, lit. "Steiner – The Iron Cross") is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. Set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviets' Caucasus operations against the German Kuban bridgehead on the Taman Peninsula 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.

An international co-production between British and West German financiers. Exteriors were shot on location in Yugoslavia. The film is notable for using a significant number of authentic tanks and equipment.

PLOT:

The movie opens with a German children's song, "Hänschen klein", mixed with black-and-white footage of prewar and war scenes. It then segues to colour and a German platoon raid on a Russian forward outpost led by Sergeant Rolf Steiner (James Coburn), during which his men capture a Russian boy-soldier (Slavko Štimac).

An aristocratic Prussian officer, Captain von Stransky (Maximilian Schell), is posted as a new company commander in the Kuban bridgehead on the Eastern Front in 1943. Stransky proudly tells the regimental commander, Colonel Brandt (James Mason), and his adjutant, Captain Kiesel (David Warner), that he applied for transfer from occupied France to front line duty in Russia so that he can win the Iron Cross.

 

Hungarian Summary:

1943-at írunk. A keleti fronton az orosz csapatok hatalmas ellentámadásra készülnek, hogy a német állásokat áttörve meginduljanak Berlin felé. Az elsõ vonalban szolgálatot teljesítõ, feladatát remekül végzõ, ám a háborút és még inkább a nácikat gyûlölõ Steiner õrmester (James Coburn) és harcedzett csapata is készül a visszafordíthatatlanra: az elsöprõ orosz támadásra. Váratlanul új felettest kap a hithû náci és csak az elõléptetésért taposó Kranksi százados (Maximillian Schell) személyében, aki aztán a hõn áhított, dicsõséget hozó Vaskereszt megszerzése érdekében bármibe képes belevinni a katonáit. A harcok során Steiner és társai végül elszakadnak a fõ német erõktõl és mélyen a front, az ellenséges vonalak mögött találják magukat. Tudják, hogy egy esélyük van a túlélésre: trükkökkel, csellel át kell törniük az övéikhez, ám ha még sikerül is a lehetetlennek tûnõ akció, akkor is szembe kell majd nézniük legnagyobb ellenségükkel, a saját felettesükkel...

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Cast / Szereplők

  • James Coburn as Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
  • Maximilian Schell as Hauptmann Stransky
  • James Mason as Oberst Brandt
  • David Warner as Hauptmann Kiesel
  • Klaus Löwitsch as Unteroffizier. Krüger
  • Vadim Glowna as Schütze Kern
  • Roger Fritz as Leutnant Triebig
  • Dieter Schidor as Schütze Anselm
  • Burkhard Driest as Schütze Maag
  • Fred Stillkrauth as Obergefreiter Karl "Schnurrbart" Reisenauer
  • Michael Nowka as Schütze Dietz
  • Véronique Vendell as Marga
  • Arthur Brauss as Schütze Zoll
  • Senta Berger as Eva
  • Igor Galo as Leutnant Meyer
  • Slavko Štimac as Russian Boy
  • Demeter Bitenc as Capt. Pucher
  • Vladan Živković as Wolf
  • Bata Kameni as Gefreiter Joseph Keppler
  • Hermina Pipinić as Russian Major

 

 

Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Produced by Alex Winitsky
Arlene Sellers
Wolf C. Hartwig
Screenplay by Julius Epstein
James Hamilton
Walter Kelley
Based on The Willing Flesh
by Willi Heinrich
Starring James Coburn
Maximilian Schell
James Mason
David Warner
Senta Berger
Music by Ernest Gold
Cinematography John Coquillon
Edited by Michael Ellis
Tony Lawson
Uncredited:
Murray Jordan
Herbert Taschner
Production
company
Anglo-EMI Productions
Rapid Film
Terra-Filmkunst
ITC Entertainment
Distributed by EMI Films (UK)
Constantin Film (West Germany)
Release date
  • 28 January 1977 (Germany)
  • 8 March 1977 (UK)

 

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