Cross of Iron

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

James Coburn

Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Maximilian Schell

Hauptmann Stransky

James Mason

Oberst Brandt

David Warner

Hauptmann Kiesel

Klaus Löwitsch

Unteroffizier Krüger

Vadim Glowna

Gefreiter Kern

Roger Fritz

Leutnant Treibig

Dieter Schidor

Anselm

Burkhard Driest

Schütze Maag

Fred Stillkrauth

Unteroffizier Schnurrbart

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Michael Nowka

Dietz

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Véronique Vendell

Marga

Arthur Brauss

Zoll

Senta Berger

Eva

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Demeter Bitenc

Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited)

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Igor Galo

Leutnant Meyer (uncredited)

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Katherine Haber

Nurse Sadie Finkelstein (uncredited)

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Wolf C. Hartwig

Hartwig (uncredited)

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Wolfgang Hess

Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited)

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Sweeney MacArthur

Boy Soldier (uncredited)

Crew

Art

• Brian Ackland-Snow Production Design
• Ted Haworth Production Design
• Veljko Despotović Art Direction
• Harold Michelson Art Direction

Camera

• John Coquillon Director of Photography
• Dennis Fraser Grip
• Lars Looschen Still Photographer
• Herbert Smith Camera Operator
• Branko Knez First Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

• Colin Arthur Makeup Artist
• Evelyn Döhring Hairstylist

Crew

• Richard Richtsfeld Special Effects
• Peter Brayham Stunt Coordinator
• Milan Mitić Stunts

Directing

• Sam Peckinpah Director
• Bert Batt Assistant Director
• Branislav Brana Srdić Assistant Director
• Chris Carreras Assistant Director
• Mark Winitsky Assistant Director
• Trudy von Trotha Script Supervisor

Editing

• Michael Ellis Editor
• Murray Jordan Editor
• Tony Lawson Editor
• Herbert Taschner Additional Editing
• George Akers Assistant Editor
• Mark Winitsky Editorial Services

Production

• Wolf C. Hartwig Producer
• Arlene Sellers Producer
• Alex Winitsky Producer
• Katherine Haber Production Assistant
• Lothar H. Krischer Co-Producer
• Dieter Nobbe Production Supervisor

Sound

• Ernest Gold Original Music Composer
• Ernest Gold Music
• John Richards Music
• Gerard Schurmann Orchestrator
• Robin Clarke Music Editor

Writing

• Willi Heinrich Novel
• Julius J. Epstein Screenplay
• James Hamilton Screenplay
• Walter Kelley Screenplay
• Herbert Asmodi Writer

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