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Jul 11, 2023 · Cross of Iron remains a powerful and thought-provoking film that challenges the traditional tropes of the war narrative by delving into the human psyche, individual choices and skewed moral compasses. Peckinpah’s film reminds us that in war, politicians sit in their ivory towers and play a deadly game of human chess where those below them have little choice but to fight for their existence and soul.
Cross of Iron. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason. Hailed by Orson Welles as one of the great anti-war films, Cross of Iron follows a squadron of Nazi soldiers on the Eastern front during the twilight of the Second World War. Drawing from his own WWII experiences, Peckinpah drew a multi-layered portrait ...
Apr 16, 2018 · Cross of Iron’s mind-blowingly audacious ending, with the continuous laughter of our hero played over the closing images of stock footage of horrific war and death (before returning, even more powerfully, to the German children’s folk song), it brought to mind for me the closing statement of Tobe Hooper’s whoppingly important 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in which we’re left with the silent Leatherface wildly swinging his forever churning chainsaw as the now-insane Marilyn ...
Jun 3, 2011 · Here's the trailer to the 1977 war film 'Cross Of Iron' directed by Sam Peckinpah 'Cross Of Iron' is a restoration of a classic, a film based in World War II...
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Cross of Iron is Mr. Peckinpah's least interesting, least personal film in years, a hysterically elaborate, made-in-Yugoslavia war spectacle, the work of international financiers and a multinational cast, most of whom are supposed to be Germans although they sound like delegates to an international PEN convention. Read More.
Articles from the Notebook. It is 1943 and the German army, ravaged and demoralized, are hastily retreating from the Russian front. Conflict brews between Corporal Stiener, whose main concerns lie with the safety of his men, and Captain Stransky, who longs for the Iron Cross so he can return to Berlin a hero.
Cross of Iron. Germany, 1943. Experienced Sergeant Steiner, fighting on the Eastern Front, has lost all illusions about the meaning of war. The fanatical Captain Stransky, on the other hand, is still convinced of the "final victory". Due to an order of Stransky, Steiner and his men get behind the Russian front.
