![Cross of Iron Poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500//fR6pqh5aFn0fawsn7sR2zC15swx.jpg)
Cross of Iron
70.75%
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January 29, 1977
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Drama, Action, History, War
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Featured Crew
Sam Peckinpah
Director
Willi Heinrich
Novel
Wolf C. Hartwig
Producer
Cast
![James Coburn](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//9GApjInyrVvjnTAr652C1aViPqZ.jpg)
James Coburn
Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner
![Maximilian Schell](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//6WLkJ6Lj8bhO3MdV8EBx41ZWjbL.jpg)
Maximilian Schell
Hauptmann Stransky
![James Mason](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//8iun5pwVh2hBRJ1Nq51mys39Dy1.jpg)
James Mason
Oberst Brandt
![David Warner](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//AlsZcAY2c4chfOxMW69gHQzH1B2.jpg)
David Warner
Hauptmann Kiesel
![Klaus Löwitsch](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//dMdQVN06vzi7Tn9qByIvxDHxE2S.jpg)
Klaus Löwitsch
Unteroffizier Krüger