Cross Of Iron
During World War II, Cpl. Rolf Steiner is a well-respected member of the German military and a recipient of the Iron Cross, Germany's highest military honor. But when a new commander, Captain Stransky, takes over the platoon, Steiner and Stransky come into immediate conflict.
22 September 1936, Mannheim, Baden, Germany
December 5, 1948 in Cuprija, Serbia, Yugoslavia
28 April 1939, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
19 January 1952, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
15 May 1909, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees, West Yorkshire], England, UK
10 March 1953, Berlin, Germany
8 April 1936, Berlin, Germany
September 1, 1937
8 December 1930, Vienna, Austria
26 September 1941, Eutin, Germany
24 July 1936, Augsburg, Germany
15 October 1960, Konjsko Brdo near Perusic, Croatia, Yugoslavia
October 15, 2004
Not Peckinpah's best, but still powerful.
February 27, 2003
Peckinpah indulges in endless combat scenes (this was his only war movie), which try the patience of viewers who came for the real story.
October 12, 2010
Goes to extremes to paint a picture of war as insane.
August 30, 2006
Its complex and vivid portrayal of the absurdity of war, however, prompted none other than Orson Welles to write Peckinpah and proclaim it the finest antiwar film he had ever seen.
July 31, 2011
This was Peckinpah's last important work and his only war movie.
April 17, 2006
Cross of Iron would almost seem a proper mea culpa by Peckinpah for his controversial career.
November 17, 2009
War is hell, but for Peckinpah it's also the sadist's Olympian joke
March 10, 2003
This war film is also Peckinpah's last great movie.
May 09, 2005
Mr. Peckinpah's least interesting, least personal film in years, a hysterically elaborate, made-in-Yugoslavia war spectacle, the work of international financiers and a multinational cast.
