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:
James Hamilton, Julius J. Epstein, 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 |
| Writing | Willi Heinrich | Novel |
| Sound | Ernest Gold | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Tony Lawson | Editor |
| Production | Wolf C. Hartwig | Producer |
| Production | Alex Winitsky | Producer |
| Camera | John Coquillon | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Murray Jordan | Editor |
| Production | Arlene Sellers | Producer |
| Editing | Michael Ellis | Editor |
| Writing | James Hamilton | Screenplay |
| Writing | Julius J. Epstein | Screenplay |
| Writing | Walter Kelley | Screenplay |
| Production | Katherine Haber | Production Assistant |
| Production | Lothar H. Krischer | Co-Producer |
| Editing | Herbert Taschner | Additional Editing |
| Art | Harold Michelson | Art Direction |
| Editing | Mark Winitsky | Editorial Services |
| Directing | Bert Batt | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Herbert Smith | Camera Operator |
| Sound | John Richards | Music |
| Camera | Branko Knez | First Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Gerard Schurmann | Orchestrator |
| Crew | Richard Richtsfeld | Special Effects |
| Camera | Dennis Fraser | Grip |
| Crew | Milan Mitić | Stunts |
| Art | Veljko Despotović | Art Direction |
| Directing | Branislav Brana Srdić | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Chris Carreras | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Colin Arthur | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Evelyn Döhring | Hairstylist |
| Production | Dieter Nobbe | Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Ernest Gold | Music |
| Directing | Trudy von Trotha | Script Supervisor |
| Art | Brian Ackland-Snow | Production Design |
| Art | Ted Haworth | Production Design |
| Crew | Peter Brayham | Stunt Coordinator |
| Directing | Mark Winitsky | Assistant Director |
| Editing | George Akers | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Lars Looschen | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Robin Clarke | Music Editor |
| Writing | Herbert Asmodi | Writer |