Cross of Iron

Cross of Iron is an Anglo-German war film from 1977 directed by Sam Peckinpah . The film follows the experiences of a platoon German Wehrmacht infantry in the Kuban - beachhead on the Eastern Front in 1943 and is based on the book Das Patient Fleisch of Eastern Front veteran Willi Heinrich.



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*1 Cast  ==[Cast  edit ] == ==[Story  edit ] == Spoiler warning : The following text contains details of the content and / or the end of the story.On returning from a reconnaissance patrol finds Corporal Steiner ( James Coburn ) that Captain Stransky ( Maximilian Schell ) them assigned as commanding officer. Stransky's first command to Steiner once a captured Russian child soldier to be executed. This is the beginning of a series of conflicts between Steiner and his superiors. Against the background of a hopeless struggle (the Germans sitting in the corner where the blows fall), Steiner also has yet to cope with the ambitious Stransky, who are not afraid to Steiner's platoon to death hunt in his hunt for the Iron Cross . The disillusioned Colonel Brandt ( James Mason ) can not count on mercy in Steiner's eyes, though he tries a "fair" and "humane" to wage war this appears not to be possible when you need to perform insane orders. ==Background [  edit ] == The film is the result of a British / German cooperation, and at last was the soft porn producer Rapid Film enabled to get around the budget. It was shot on location in the former Yugoslavia because it was authentic military material available here.
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 * 4 Reception
 * 5   <span class="toctext" style="color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none;">Continuation

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Using Peckinpah is clearly recognizable in the film. The beginning of the film is a montage of images of Adolf Hitler, the Hitler Jugend, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the defeat at Stalingrad and the miserable retreat, with the soundtrack to the nursery rhyme Hänschen Klein <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] and the Horst-Wessel -lied, and the spectator leads finally to the place of action, between Steiner and his soldiers.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The intense action scenes take a central place in the film, the viewer sits between the bombings and the authentic Soviet T-34 tanks roaring ride in slow motion the German position to smithereens, the German soldiers shoot each other to shreds with MP40 machine guns.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The credits begin a frenzied laughter of Steiner while a montage of famous war photos shown: Scenes include Holocaust hanged partisans and images from the Vietnam War. The laughter stops and then a quote from Bertolt Brecht in the play Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui shown:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you people. For though the world stood up and stopped the Bastard The Bitch That bore him is in heat again" ==Reception <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhhjq7vkeBs3RcXjdtY-F9G34Sf_PQ#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]] criticized the obscene display of violence, misogyny (a political Nazi officer left by Steiner at a battalion Russian women who tear him), the uncomfortable message that the ordinary soldier is trying to stand, even though he is a German, and that the US imperialist policy is no better. In Europe, the film received better and he was in Germany even a box-office hit. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] Like several other films of Peckinpah Cross of Iron also acquired a cult status . [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhhjq7vkeBs3RcXjdtY-F9G34Sf_PQ#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]] ==Continued <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The sequel Breakthrough (1979 film), mainly financed by the German producers, came out in 1979 and was directed by western director Andrew McLaglen . Richard Burton played the role of Steiner, which a US soldier in a muddled story ( Robert Mitchum ) to save knows and having to deal with an assassination plot against Hitler. The film received poor reviews. [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=nl&u=https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bronvermelding&usg=ALkJrhhjq7vkeBs3RcXjdtY-F9G34Sf_PQ#Bron_gevraagd <sup class="noprint nopopups" style="line-height:1;">[source? ]]