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Breakthrough

Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!

5.8 / 10
1979
93 min
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.