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.
as Sergeant Steiner
as General Webster
as Major Stransky
as Krüger
as Sergeant Anderson
as Keppel
as Colonel Rogers
as Yvette
as Captain Berger
as Captain Kistner
as Paul Anselm
as Nissen
as General Hofmann
as Corporal Rothe
as Schulze
as SS Officer
as Paramedic