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.
24 July 1936, Augsburg, Germany
22 September 1936, Mannheim, Baden, Germany
15 May 1909, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees, West Yorkshire], England, UK
29 July 1941, Manchester, England, UK
December 5, 1948 in Cuprija, Serbia, Yugoslavia
March 19, 1941 in Berlin, Germany
15 October 1960, Konjsko Brdo near Perusic, Croatia, Yugoslavia
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
31 August 1928, Laurel, Nebraska, USA
July 30, 1941 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
21 July 1922, Ljubljana, Slovenia
8 April 1936, Berlin, Germany
September 1, 1937
8 February 1923, Paddington, London, England, UK
1939, Munich, Germany
13 May 1941, Vienna, Austria
10 March 1953, Berlin, Germany
19 January 1952, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
28 April 1939, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
6 March 1948, Bienrode [now Brunswick], Lower Saxony, Germany
21 July 1942, Montpellier, France
8 December 1930, Vienna, Austria
26 September 1941, Eutin, Germany
October 15, 2004
Not Peckinpah's best, but still powerful.
October 12, 2010
Goes to extremes to paint a picture of war as insane.
November 17, 2009
War is hell, but for Peckinpah it's also the sadist's Olympian joke
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.
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.
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.
March 10, 2003
This war film is also Peckinpah's last great movie.
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.
