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Cross Of Iron 133 minutes, UK/Germany (1977), 18
Average user rating (4.9 / 75 votes)

Coming at the Second World War from an unusual angle for an American movie, Peckinpah's tale of Germans retreating from the Russian front is as intelligent as it is violent

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Cross Of Iron: Set in 1943 when the Germans had to retreat from their crushing defeat on the Russian front, this is a considered and intelligent look at the way soldiers react to warfare...
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