Breakthrough

Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!

• 1979
• 1h 33m
• Drama · History · War
• 5.9/10

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.