Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.
Roy Scheider
Jürgen Prochnow
Lara Harris
Harry Dean Stanton
Dale Dye
Tim Reid
William MacDonald
David Palffy
Neil Grahn
Ernie Jackson
Ron Campbell
John Dodds
Richard Durven
Harold Hecht Jr.
Alice Pesta
Gregory A. Gale
Henry Kope
Guy Buller
George Scholl