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1977
Cross of Iron is a 1977 war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, and David Warner. Set on the Eastern Front in World War II during the Soviets' Caucasus operations against the German Kuban bridgehead on the Taman Peninsula in late 1943, the film focuses on the class conflict between a newly arrived, aristocratic Prussian officer who covets winning the Iron Cross and…
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Before becoming a real-life battlefield in 1991, Yugoslavia was a popular shooting location for foreign films dealing with the Second World War. This was largely due to the large quantity of American, Soviet, and German tanks and other equipment in the arsenal of the Yugoslav People’s Army, which helped filmmakers reconstruct various battlefields. The most memorable film to benefit from this was *Cross of Iron*, a 1…More
