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.
Richard Burton
Rod Steiger
Helmut Griem
Klaus Löwitsch
Michael Parks
Werner Pochath
Robert Mitchum
Véronique Vendell
Horst Janson
Joachim Hansen
Dieter Schidor
Bruno Dietrich
Curd Jürgens
Sieghardt Rupp
Hans-Jürgen Schatz
Günter Meisner
Christoph Waltz