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Cross of Iron is 14655 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 8803 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Valhalla Rising but less popular than The Pink Panther.
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Mar 10, 2006 · Cross of Iron is set in the German army but hasn't the usual conflict between ordinary soldiers and Nazi fanatics. Maximillian Schell's Stransky is a Prussian honor-bound by his aristocratic family to come back from the front with the Iron Cross.
Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warner. Set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviets' Caucasus operations against the German Kuban bridgehead on the Taman Peninsula in late 1943, the film focuses on the class conflict between a newly arrived, aristocratic Prussian officer who covets winning the Iron Cross and a cynical, battle-hardened infantry NCO.
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 ...
Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah set on the Eastern Front in World War Two during the Soviets' Caucasus operations against the Germ...
“Cross of Iron” brings Sam Peckinpah’s poetry of the broken loner to the most desolate place of all; the front lines of battle. “Cross,” which Orson Welles deemed his favorite anti-war film since “All Quiet on the Western Front,” depicts the failing assault of German troops on Russian territory in 1943.
Based on the novel by Will Heinrich, Sam Peckinpah's only war film is an intense and uncompromising affair that brilliantly reflects both the futility of conflict and the director's fascination with individuals confronted by events beyond their control. A World War II tale told from the German perspective, Cross Of Iron follows a platoon of German soldiers in Russia when the German Wehrmacht forces had been decimated and the Germans were retreating along the Russian front. Rolf Steiner ...
