It's 1943, and the German army is retreating from the Russian front, ravaged and demoralized. Conflict erupts in the midst of the madness between the aristocratic but ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the brave Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only person who believes the Third Reich's army is still vastly superior to the Russian army. Within his pompous persona, however, lurks a quivering coward yearning for the Iron Cross so he can return to Berlin as a hero. Steiner, on the other hand, is cynical, defiantly nonconformist, and more concerned with the safety of his own men than with the avalanche of military decorations bestowed upon him by his superiors.
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It's 1943, and the German army is retreating from the Russian front, ravaged and demoralized. Conflict erupts in the midst of the madness between the aristocratic but ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the brave Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only person who believes the Third Reich's army is still vastly superior to the Russian army. Within his pompous persona, however, lurks a quivering coward yearning for the Iron Cross so he can return to Berlin as a hero. Steiner, on the other hand, is cynical, defiantly nonconformist, and more concerned with the safety of his own men than with the avalanche of military decorations bestowed upon him by his superiors.
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