Breakthrough (1979)

Original title: Steiner - Das Eiserne Kreuz Teil II

Movie · 93 min · Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen · TMDB 5.8/10 (37 votes)

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.