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World War Ii | Troops
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Best Foreign Film | 1978
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,509,000 USD
Filmed in Yugoslavia with money put up by a West German porn producer.
At forty-eight, James Coburn was widely felt to be too old to play Corporal Steiner. The man on whom his character was based, Johann Schwerdfeger, was only twenty-eight in the summer of 1943.
Orson Welles said this was the best war movie he had seen since All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He appreciated that the story was shown from the viewpoint of an ordinary soldier.
According to actor Vadim Glowna, Director Sam Peckinpah drank four whole bottles of whiskey or vodka during every day of shooting while sleeping approximately only three or four hours per night.
The ending wasn't the original ending in the script. At the time, the movie had run out of money, so Director Sam Peckinpah got James Coburn to improvise.
"Captain Stransky: I'll show you how a Prussian officer can fight. Sargeant Steiner: And I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow."
"Colonel Brandt: What will we do when we have lost the war? Captain Kiesel: Prepare for the next one."
