peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2012 01 28 CrossOfIron

Cross of Iron

Sat, Jan 28, 2012./noise/movies | Link

James Coburn as a German corporal/sergeant on the eastern front in 1943; war at its most ludicrous, looking back from 1977 through a German soldier's account. I would have traded a lot of those explosions for further plot developments. This is something like Paths of Glory with bombs.