Breakthrough

Burton...Mitchum...Steiger...Enemies...Yet Allies In Combat With Destiny!

3/1/19791h 33min5.9/10(35 TMDB votes)

DramaHistoryWar

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen

Plot

Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.