Cross of Iron

2h 12m

Drama Action History War

7.1

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. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

Cast

Unteroffizier / Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

Maximilian Schell

Hauptmann Stransky

Hauptmann Kiesel

Klaus Löwitsch

Unteroffizier Krüger

Leutnant Treibig

Burkhard Driest

Fred Stillkrauth

Unteroffizier Schnurrbart

Véronique Vendell

Hauptmann Pucher (uncredited)

Leutnant Meyer (uncredited)

Katherine Haber

Nurse Sadie Finkelstein (uncredited)

Wolf C. Hartwig

Hartwig (uncredited)

Schütze Maag (voice) (uncredited)

Sweeney MacArthur

Boy Soldier (uncredited)

Partizan Soldier (uncredited)

Hermina Pipinić

Ruskinja (uncredited)

German Officer (voice) (uncredited)

Dragomir Stanojević

Corporal Joseph Keppler (uncredited)

Michail (uncredited)

Crew

Julius J. Epstein

Assistant Editor

Herbert Taschner

Additional Editing

Director of Photography

Assistant Director

Branislav Brana Srdić

Assistant Director

Assistant Director

Assistant Director, Editorial Services

Production Supervisor

Wolf C. Hartwig

Lothar H. Krischer

Katherine Haber

Production Assistant

Brian Ackland-Snow

Production Design

Production Design

Camera Operator

First Assistant Camera

Evelyn Döhring

Richard Richtsfeld

Special Effects

Original Music Composer, Music

Still Photographer

Trudy von Trotha

Script Supervisor

Stunt Coordinator

Harold Michelson

Veljko Despotović

Gerard Schurmann