
Breakthrough
Breakthrough
A Drama and History film released in 1979, Breakthrough runs 1h 33m and comes from Germany. Soap2Day lists it with Andrew V. McLaglen directing and Richard Burton and Rod Steiger in the cast. It holds 5.8/10 from 39 votes. 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.
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Country: Germany
- Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
- Cast: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum, Véronique Vendell, Werner Pochath, Klaus Löwitsch, Michael Parks, Helmut Griem, Curd Jürgens, Horst Janson, Joachim Hansen, Dieter Schidor

















