starring
James Coburn
Maximilian Schell James Mason
At the Eastern Front in 1943 the German army was engaged in a bloody and doomed struggle against the Russian enemy.
Sam Peckinpah 's uncompromising picture of this war features a cynical sergeant short on discipline but long on medals who has to do the dirty job of fighting, and an officer obsessed with defunct values of glory, determined to win the Iron Cross-by whatever means he can.
Screenplay by JULIUS j. EPSTEIN and HERBERT ASMODI based on the novel by WILLI HEINRICK Produced by WOLF c. HARTWIG Directed by sam PECKINPAH
(First showing on British television) Films: page 10