Croix de fer (1977)
1943. L'armée allemande, démoralisée, perd de sa superbe sur le front russe. Le colonel Brandt reçoit un nouveau chef de bataillon, le capitaine Stransky, un aristocrate prussien, orgueilleux et opportuniste. Celui-ci s'est engagé dans le seul but de décrocher la Croix de fer. L'ambition de Stransky se heurte rapidement à la rigueur du sergent Steiner, un sous-officier très estimé de ses hommes. De retour d'une bataille, Stransky rédige un rapport fallacieux, tout à son honneur, que Steiner refuse de contresigner. Steiner repart en première ligne. Stransky omet de lui faire parvenir l'ordre de repli du colonel Brandt. Steiner et ses hommes se retrouvent cernés par l'ennemi...
Directeur:
Sam Peckinpah
écrivains:
Julius J. Epstein, James Hamilton, Walter Kelley.
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James Coburn as Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner |
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Maximilian Schell as Hauptmann Stransky |
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James Mason as Oberst Brandt |
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David Warner as Hauptmann Kiesel |
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Klaus Löwitsch as Unteroffizier Krüger |
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Vadim Glowna as Gefreiter Kern |
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Roger Fritz as Leutnant Treibig |
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Dieter Schidor as Anselm |
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Burkhard Driest as Schütze Maag |
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Fred Stillkrauth as Unteroffizier Schnurrbart |
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Michael Nowka as Dietz |
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Véronique Vendell as Marga |
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Arthur Brauss as Zoll |
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Senta Berger as Eva |
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Demeter Bitenc as Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited) |
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Igor Galo as Leutnant Meyer (uncredited) |
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Katherine Haber as Nurse Sadie Finkelstein (uncredited) |
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Wolf C. Hartwig as Hartwig (uncredited) |
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Wolfgang Hess as Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited) |
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Sweeney MacArthur as Boy Soldier (uncredited) |
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Irfan Mensur as Partizan Soldier (uncredited) |
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Hermina Pipinić as Ruskinja (uncredited) |
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Robert Rietti as German Officer (voice) (uncredited) |
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Dragomir Stanojević as Corporal Joseph Keppler (uncredited) |
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Slavko Štimac as Michail (uncredited) |
| Directing | Sam Peckinpah | Director |
| Editing | Michael Ellis | Editor |
| Editing | Tony Lawson | Editor |
| Editing | Murray Jordan | Editor |
| Camera | John Coquillon | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ernest Gold | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Wolf C. Hartwig | Producer |
| Production | Alex Winitsky | Producer |
| Writing | Willi Heinrich | Novel |
| Production | Arlene Sellers | Producer |
| Writing | Julius J. Epstein | Screenplay |
| Writing | James Hamilton | Screenplay |
| Writing | Walter Kelley | Screenplay |
| Production | Katherine Haber | Production Assistant |
| Production | Lothar H. Krischer | Co-Producer |
| Editing | Herbert Taschner | Additional Editing |
| Art | Ted Haworth | Production Design |
| Editing | Mark Winitsky | Editorial Services |
| Sound | Gerard Schurmann | Orchestrator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Colin Arthur | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Evelyn Döhring | Hairstylist |
| Camera | Herbert Smith | Camera Operator |
| Editing | George Akers | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | Bert Batt | Assistant Director |
| Art | Veljko Despotović | Art Direction |
| Production | Dieter Nobbe | Production Supervisor |
| Camera | Lars Looschen | Still Photographer |
| Crew | Richard Richtsfeld | Special Effects |
| Sound | Ernest Gold | Music |
| Art | Brian Ackland-Snow | Production Design |
| Directing | Branislav Brana Srdić | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Branko Knez | First Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Chris Carreras | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Mark Winitsky | Assistant Director |
| Art | Harold Michelson | Art Direction |
| Sound | John Richards | Music |
| Crew | Milan Mitić | Stunts |
| Crew | Peter Brayham | Stunt Coordinator |
| Camera | Dennis Fraser | Grip |
| Directing | Trudy von Trotha | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Robin Clarke | Music Editor |
| Writing | Herbert Asmodi | Writer |