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In 1943, on the Russian front, decorated leader Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is promoted to Sergeant after another successful mission. Meanwhile, upper-class arrogant Prussian Captain Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) is assigned as the new commander of his squad. After a bloody battle of Steiners squad against the Russian troops led by the brave Lieutenant Meyer (Igor Galo), who dies in combat, the coward Stransky claims that he led his squad against the Russian and requests to be awarded with the Iron Cross to satisfy his personal ambition together with that of his aristocratic family. Stransky gives the names of Steiner and of the homosexual Lieutenant Triebig (Roger Fritz) as witnesses of his accomplishment, but Steiner, who has problems with the Armys chain of command and with Stranskys arrogance, refuses to participate in the fraud. When Colonel Brandt (James Mason) gives the order to leave the position in the front, Stransky does not retransmit the order to Steiners squad, and they are left alone, surrounded by the enemy and have to fight to survive.
1943. Stalingrad has fallen and the German Army is being pushed back on the Eastern Front. Nowhere is the situation more dire for the Germans than at the Kuban Bridgehead/Taman Peninsula. Here we see the war through the eyes of a platoon of German reconnaissance troops. Their senior N.C.O. is grizzled, resourceful veteran Corporal Steiner (James Coburn). He is unconventional, insubordinate, and irreverent, but the regiments commander, Colonel Brandt (James Mason), tolerates this as he gets results. However, his company has a new commanding officer, the inexperienced Captain Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell), a by-the-book, authoritarian aristocrat; he and Steiner are bound to clash. Also, Stransky is obsessed with winning the Iron Cross.
James Coburn
Unteroffizier Feldwebel (S
Maximilian Schell
Hauptmann (Capt.) Stransky
James Mason
Oberst (Col.) Brandt
David Warner
Hauptmann (Capt.) Kiesel
Klaus Löwitsch
Unteroffizier (Cpl.) Krüger
Vadim Glowna
Gefreiter (Pvt.) Kern
Roger Fritz
Leutnant (Lt.) Triebig
Dieter Schidor
Anselm
Burkhard Driest
Schütze Maag
Fred Stillkrauth
Unteroffizier (Cpl.) Schnurrbart ('Private Mustache')
Michael Nowka
Dietz
Véronique Vendell
Marga
Arthur Brauss
Zoll
Senta Berger
Eva
Demeter Bitenc
Capt. Pucher
Thomas Braut
Unteroffizier Feldwebel (S
Heinz Engelmann
Oberst (Col.) Brandt
Igor Galo
Leutnant (Lt.) Meyer
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