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Bookmark this pageCross of Iron (1977)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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From Time Out Film Guide
Peckinpah's only war film, based on a novel by Willi Heinrich, displays his familiar preoccupation with the individual confronted by events beyond his control. Dealing with a German platoon involved in the 1943 retreat on the Russian front, the film reveals a special feeling for the universalities of war: lives in the balance, the single-suppression of emotion. Sombre and claustrophobic photography, an intelligent script, and Peckinpah's clear understanding of a working platoon of men, are all far removed from the monotonous simplicity of most big-budget war films.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Wolf C Hartwig
Cast: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Senta Berger full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 133 mins
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