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Cross of Iron

  • Film
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Time Out says

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.
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Release Details

  • Duration:133 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Sam Peckinpah
  • Screenwriter:Julius Epstein, Walter Kelly, James Hamilton
  • Cast:
    • James Coburn
    • Maximilian Schell
    • James Mason
    • David Warner
    • Klaus Löwitsch
    • Senta Berger
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