Sgt. Steiner (James Coburn) and his men are betrayed by their own army in this stirring scene from Sam Peckinpah's anti-war masterpiece, "Cross of Iron"
The Wehrmacht officer Lt. Triebig who orders the machine gunning of Steiner's platoon, is played by Roger Fritz. Herr Fritz, 85, passed away in Germany on November 26, 2021 of a stroke. Apart from being an actor he was also an artist, a photographer and a restaurateur. RIP, Herr Fritz.
Y con todo respeto para 'Buscando al soldado Ryan' de Spielberg, las escenas de acción bélica, para mí punto de vista, son infinitamente mejor dirigidas.
One of my favourite war films. So very gritty, very powerful and very sad showing the horror of war. Full kudos to everybody who performed in it.Sad to see a lot of the cast have passed on.
a grandfather maybe volkssturm called steiner , a gay major and a officer who needs the iron cross YESSSS hahahaha they had and have the weirdest fantasies about the germans ww2 and 1
In my opinion, those few minutes made THE most powerful and emotional scene EVER in any (anti) war film! Absolute masterpiece and this will always be one of my favourite war films. Spare the CGI shit... a film of true class does not need it!
Best war movie ever because it not only tells the story on the german side but the friendship, betrayal and jealosy of the iron cross. Lets not forget the fantastic camera action with slow motion and touching music and great actors ofcourse. Saving private ryan and Apocalypse now are two other of my favorites but this is still my number one.
@White Rook You need to see the movie "Stalingrad", a stirring account of the battle & anti-war movie written, directed, and acted by Germans (there is a version in English). It was released on the 50th anniversary of the battle, and covers the experiences of a unit of young naive German soldiers throughout the battle until the remains of the 6th army surrenders. It does so without promoting or honouring anything to do with Nazism, and it does good job of reflecting the ugly violence of war, the moral conflicts with the hearts & minds of the soldiees, and the overall futility of the campaign. IMHO, it is still the best WII movie ever.
Take note. No extreme close ups. No quick cuts. No shaky cam. I miss this kind of film making so much. I dropped out of modern movies and tv long ago. Modern cinema is an insult to the viewer.
Orson Wells said this was the best films ever made, so said the Man who made and stared and directed in one of the best movies ever made. It always gets me near tears when Steiner screams "NOOOOO" when seeing his men cut to piece.
@@oleopathic Wells said he like the portrayal that the main nemesis is War itself and one of senses that stick in his mind was a crushed body of a dead German solider soaked in thick mud, in yet Men and vehicles go over that body as if it wasn't there.
Probably the only film made by a western director which truly captures the spirit of the industrial scale slaughterhouse that the eastern front was for nearly 4 years. In almost every scene, everything is already smashed up or burned out, but the shells keep raining down through the ever present pall of smoke and dust and churning it up all over again.
@@tarara8029 All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'Nothing New in the West') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The movie was made in the USA in 1930.
Love it when that one german on mg team had doubts this whole time and tried several times stop that mg firing. Atleast finally when he said out loud "its Steiner" everyone came to their senses. And that one rat Triebig tried running away from his murder of own soldiers
Germans were trained to obey no matter what. Blind obedience. Many were shot by firing squad for even questioning orders. When the invasion of Russia started, Hitler ordered the Russian population would suffer total war, rape and murder were condoned and encouraged. One german general balked, he ignored Hitlers commands to eliminate soviet political officers and wouldnt allow his men to act less than befitting a German man. He was put into an asylum, by Hitlers personal order.
@ TA...Heinz Guderian. I read his book, very impressive leader. it happened after the German offensive Operation Typhoon failed to capture Moscow, Guderian was the scapegoat. One order he would not pass on was the immediate execution of any commissars, or russian political officers. He would not allow reprisals against russian civilian population. This infuriated Hitler greatly. He was also a great believer that Germany needed a better tank to fight the T-34, he suggested to hitler that they should simply copy the russian tank. None of things endeared him with leadership. He was a maverick.
@@gregryan7761 If Guderian followed those orders I would be surprised. Hitler had the SS for this kind of work. And Gestapo also. As an officer he knew well that this would be a war crime and strongly punishable. Germany had a history of losong WW1 so it was a possibility they would lose again and Guderian would end up in court. Commissars were political soldiers and thus were sought after endlessly by the SS and in turn the SS was sought out by the commissars. See film Brest Castle for this dynamic. Civilians likewise are not the domain of an officer. So Hitler's order was voided. Hitler tried to play the armchair general but failed as many of his orders led to dire failures. Had he left the work to his generals WW2 might have ended up in Germany's favor. Still its understandable that with so many assassination attempts, many of which came from his generals, he would try to bypass them and lead the war himself. Recently read that the resources required to copy T-34 would make the effort inefficient. So they never attempted it. Also the tank suffered from malfunction and low production quality as it was mass produced with great speed.
Unsung? Sam unsung? To the comments about this being pro German propaganda! Stupid is as stupid does. This is from a novel written by a German eastern front soldier. It is anti war and anti Nazi. Steiner isn't pro war ,pro Nazi , pro aristocracy, pro status quo. He was good at his job or he would DIE. HE WAS PRO STEINER. Not all German soldiers were barbarian with no moral center. Some where of course as all humans are. No excuses just factual. Steiner was a tiny cog in a machine that wanted him Dead. He used his wit to preserve his life and the men under him as long as he could. To do otherwise GUARANTEED his men's and his own demise.
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki You should read some books, world aint black and white. It was such a huge war and have read many different and amazing stories that happened in eastern front.
"I had no part in it" in reference to not him making the orders kinda follows the whole "I was following orders". Sure, he never made those orders, but he made the decision to do so, valuing his life over people who weren't him, and fellow Germans no less.
'Cross of Iron' is one of my favourite wartime movie !! James Coburn plays as the staid and revengeful Sgt. Steiner ! But till now I still puzzle at the last episode of this movie.
A few frames of this film is worth more than a dozen Saving Private Ryans. More balls and talent in Sam Peckinpah than Spielberg could ever hope for. Orson Welles loved this film.
One of the best war films ever made-It's got David Warner in his third Peckinpah picture-Straw Dogs and Ballad of Cable Hogue the earlier ones-they got along and Sam could be very difficult to get along with-James Mason and Maxillian Schell and Coburn was in Major Dundee and Pat Garrett and Billy the kid----Sam had many demons but he was a true cinematic genius up there with the greats
Yeah, he had a circle of actors and crew with whom he liked to work and got on with, such as Coburn, Kristofferson, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, L Q Jones, Strother Martin, Steve McQueen amongst many others.
Era pendejo cuando ví esta maravilla. Pocas veces sentí tanta angustia e impotencia. Una verdadera pesadilla. Me voló la cabeza. Primera vez en mi vida que escuchaba gritos en una pelicula de guerra. Cuando era mas chico siempre los soldados morian cayendo como saco de papas sin chistar. Esta pelicula fue diferente. La angustia de los gristos de espanto, la camara lenta que remarca todavia mas la pesadilla sin fin de la guerra es algo que marcó mi alma a fuego. Ya tengo 52 años y no creo que sienta algo igual. Todo está maravillosamente justo. Los redobles de tambores que marcan el comienza del drama. La increible edicion, los tiros de camara, las tomas desde angulos nuevos. Todo. La escena en donde el oficial se muestra comprensivo y Steiner le dice que lo desprecia. La cara huesuda, ngulosa y sufriente de James es algo increible. Podria estar horas y horas. Film como ya no se hacen
Good God, slow motion video combined with real time sound, how was this technique never copied by anyone else? Instead the hacks that followed slowed down both the video and audio to produce the lame 'n....o...o....o...o...o...o' as the hero dives for the gun / knife/ bomb / whatever. Sam peckinpah, I salute you. I can see you splicing together the video and sound by hand back in the 70's suffering for your art. This was the culmination of a brilliant film that Sam peckinpah was able to pull out of his tormented head. The avenging angel, Steiner, (James Colburn) witnessed the the betrayal of his beloved squad (his surrogate children). We feel every gunshot. Both Pechinpah and Colburn are anchors in this movie.
@@AudieHolland You dont get it, its about editing small clips of small motion in mids of normal speed film roll. Totally different thing. Onlyone closest who has done it is John Woo who was fan of him.
@@AudieHolland Well its not about being fan, you made a statement of slow motion scene which is totally different style used by directors. I made my point, they have nothing in common
@@AndyP998 I thought keeping Steiner as a helpless observer and the machine gun crew in real time was a nice touch. In terms of technique, now w/computer graphics they can just speed it up and slow it down snippets at will. The slow motion will be interspersed with no sound in a scene that is mostly in regular time. For example, a motorcycle flip or a single knife wound. Eh .. .good enough I guess. Tarantino seems to like that technique but I find him a bit irritating. Peckinpah really had to labor over his editing in the 70's, no computer aids then.
A shame for this being one of the last grasps of Sam Peckinpah's great talent. And although it was successful in Europe for EMI Films in the UK, and Constantin Film in Germany, respectively, AVCO Embassy, the American distributors for this, picked the absolute *_WORST_* time to release it in the U.S, all due to a certain science-fiction picture that came to theatres 43 years ago today: *_Star Wars._*
@@manweller1 well, for one thing the ending was supposed to be far more epic with a huge battle at the end. the cowardly major gets killed at the end along with steiner and all of his men. they ran out of money and had to end it suddenly and peckinpah was so upset that he sat crying at the train station getting wasted with booze. thats the only different thing I know that happened to the film.
@@AndreSilva-wh4vn well, for one thing the ending was supposed to be far more epic with a huge battle at the end. the cowardly major gets killed at the end along with steiner and all of his men. they ran out of money and had to end it suddenly and peckinpah was so upset that he sat crying at the train station getting wasted with booze. thats the only different thing I know that happened to the film.
SAM PECKINPAH captures the Horror Of War In The Eastern Front. i wish this film was in bluray, Europe is lucky they have it in bluray. Sam Peckinpah film is masterpiece.
En mi humilde opinion... Una obra de arte... Sin dudas, una de las 5 mejores peliculas de guerra de la historia... Sam Peckinpah y James Coburn dos leyendas del cine... Que mas se puede decir??
I really like how "dirty" and "tired" all of these soldiers look. No tidy uniforms, not style anymore. They are slowly losing the battle and are just using and wearing whatever they had. You can hardly even tell the difference between the Germans and the Soviet soldiers (except for the helmets maybe).. Very realistic war movie!
tomasz nowakowski no IT s a piece of shit Germans against Germans of course this is what the People want to see. silly. and a german granny solider they fought in the Volkssturm units 45 we re always shown aß idiots always good to know how they really were
This scene reminds me to a real happened incident, but during WW1. It where Italain POW's, dressed like Germans who where shot by Belgian soldiers, there allies. These Italian soldiers, who where killed by friendly fire, are burried in Houthulst, Belgium. RIP. Good film by the way, i really enjoyed this one!
Shame though both Karl "Schnurrbart" Reisenauer, and Maag, and Kern died though made me cry the most, but although Rolf Steiner, Kruger, and Paul Anselm survived,
They all died during the final Russian attack at the end (a few minutes after the "Demarcation" scene happened). Though not shown, I doubt they survived the end scene.
I love this movie, the director, the action, the story... I feel that i'm there and they mean something to me! Sounds crazy? But thats what makes this movie a master peice. This is one of my all time favourite films! Thank you for uploading this scene. Please can you upload the scene where they are talking about Ideals, war? Its near the begining where they say "War is for the the truely cultured people" and "War is the extention of state policies"
@Agundis1825 You're so right. I watched the documentary Passion and Poetry and yes, he was an amazing actor. I watched this when I was like, 16? That scream is something that stays with you.
The shocking moment of truth when you discover, that the Triebigs claims, that he had no part in it, it was all someone elses orders, and than the namless soldier apologising afterwrads summs up post-war german behavior...
@ CrazyTraffic: Straw Man argument on your part, therefore irrelevant. @ Feherlofia85: Very perceptive observation of a subtle point that most people have missed when watching "Cross of Iron."
@@danielallenbutler1782 certainly no straw man argument, . your reaction proves me right that allied crimes are largely put under the carpet until this day.
@@nightwish1000 Your reply shows that you have no understanding of what constitutes a straw man argument. Feherlofia85 made no mention either way of whether or not war crimes were committed by American forces -- you introduced that in an attempt to rebut him. Nor did he imply that ONLY the Germans committed crimes against humanity -- he was addressing how one specific scene summed up the Germans' postwar view of and reaction to their own actions. I suppose a case could be made that you've actually presented a red herring, but in either case, straw man or red herring, your attempted point is equally irrelevant within the actual context of Feherlofia85's comment. Sorry, but there it is, whether you're able to recognize it or not.
@@danielallenbutler1782 honestly I do not care how you label it in order to actually rebut me, but my comment was meant to stress the fact that his claim of " typical post-war german behavior..." is nothing which can be reduced to germans only but to soldiers who committed crimes in general. adding this perspective without neglecting his point has nothing to do with a straw man. the behaviour shown is simply not typical for german soldiers only but for all.
Like almost any re-make that is churned out of Hollywood these days, it wouldn't come close to the level of realism or intensity in Peckinpah's film, no matter how big the budget
I hate remakes, they are usually dumbed down and lose the magic that was in the original, God, take the remakes of Excalibur (King Arthur) ffs, all that were made after the 1981 movie are total crap, even though they had massive budgets.
No it wasnt sufficient budget Jules, ending was totally rushed and had to be filmed in just day and got changed totally. Those hollywood clowns would never give money to movie made from german perspective, which is sad.
Here's something to do. Think of all the classic war movies. Imagine yourself a soldier serving in an infantry rifle company. Now out of those classic characters; make up your own ideal company. As a serving soldier we did this a while back for fun. Lee Marvin would always be a company sergeant major (nobody f@@ks with Lee Marvin) company commander Richard Burton etc......
filled with hate and anger at the man who ordered the death of his friends, also..he could also step in later if anyone said steiner killed him he could claim the death for himself..and save steiner
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The Wehrmacht officer Lt. Triebig who orders the machine gunning of Steiner's platoon, is played by Roger Fritz. Herr Fritz, 85, passed away in Germany on November 26, 2021 of a stroke. Apart from being an actor he was also an artist, a photographer and a restaurateur. RIP, Herr Fritz.
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Oh this very sad
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Rip Triebigg
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I saw this as a kid. I forgot about it back in my mind, but I never truly forgot about it. One of the most memorable and tragic war movies ever made.
Y con todo respeto para 'Buscando al soldado Ryan' de Spielberg, las escenas de acción bélica, para mí punto de vista, son infinitamente mejor dirigidas.
orson welles told Peckinpah that this was the greatest war movie he has ever seen.
One of my favourite war films. So very gritty, very powerful and very sad showing the horror of war. Full kudos to everybody who performed in it.Sad to see a lot of the cast have passed on.
Yes, that's true. Even though they ran out of money during filming the film ended up pretty well.
a grandfather maybe volkssturm called steiner , a gay major and a officer who needs the iron cross YESSSS hahahaha they had and have the weirdest fantasies about the germans ww2 and 1
And "Winter war" too.
In my opinion, those few minutes made THE most powerful and emotional scene EVER in any (anti) war film! Absolute masterpiece and this will always be one of my favourite war films. Spare the CGI shit... a film of true class does not need it!
It should always be about the acting IMO...
To know it was improvised in the last days of shooting because there was no funding anymore to finish the film as initially planned :o
Best war movie ever because it not only tells the story on the german side but the friendship, betrayal and jealosy of the iron cross.
Lets not forget the fantastic camera action with slow motion and touching music and great actors ofcourse.
Saving private ryan and Apocalypse now are two other of my favorites but this is still my number one.
Remember the flaw in saving private Ryan. The armored glass on tiger 1 aufst e was 6". A 45. Cal. Thompson would not pennate the glass.
@White Rook You need to see the movie "Stalingrad", a stirring account of the battle & anti-war movie written, directed, and acted by Germans (there is a version in English). It was released on the 50th anniversary of the battle, and covers the experiences of a unit of young naive German soldiers throughout the battle until the remains of the 6th army surrenders. It does so without promoting or honouring anything to do with Nazism, and it does good job of reflecting the ugly violence of war, the moral conflicts with the hearts & minds of the soldiees, and the overall futility of the campaign. IMHO, it is still the best WII movie ever.
Kellys Heroes is another classic WWII movie that is ranked up there with this masterpiece.
@@derekbaker3279 Stalingrad was another good one.
James Coburn. One of my favorite actors of all time.
One of the Best! James Coburn, R.I.P.!
Take note. No extreme close ups. No quick cuts. No shaky cam. I miss this kind of film making so much. I dropped out of modern movies and tv long ago. Modern cinema is an insult to the viewer.
Agree
Most viewers have the mindset of a 12yr old, short attention span, shorter memory.
Shaky cam should be banned.
Orson Wells said this was the best films ever made, so said the Man who made and stared and directed in one of the best movies ever made.
It always gets me near tears when Steiner screams "NOOOOO" when seeing his men cut to piece.
Wells saw this film? Was he friends with Peckinpah ?
@@oleopathic Wells said he like the portrayal that the main nemesis is War itself and one of senses that stick in his mind was a crushed body of a dead German solider soaked in thick mud, in yet Men and vehicles go over that body as if it wasn't there.
Probably the only film made by a western director which truly captures the spirit of the industrial scale slaughterhouse that the eastern front was for nearly 4 years. In almost every scene, everything is already smashed up or burned out, but the shells keep raining down through the ever present pall of smoke and dust and churning it up all over again.
All quiet on western front".
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@@tarara8029 All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'Nothing New in the West') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
The movie was made in the USA in 1930.
@@wilfriedhuthmacher4113 das boot is also hardcore.
I also reccomend: wild geese, battle algiers, path of glory,
Love it when that one german on mg team had doubts this whole time and tried several times stop that mg firing. Atleast finally when he said out loud "its Steiner" everyone came to their senses. And that one rat Triebig tried running away from his murder of own soldiers
Germans were trained to obey no matter what. Blind obedience. Many were shot by firing squad for even questioning orders. When the invasion of Russia started, Hitler ordered the Russian population would suffer total war, rape and murder were condoned and encouraged. One german general balked, he ignored Hitlers commands to eliminate soviet political officers and wouldnt allow his men to act less than befitting a German man. He was put into an asylum, by Hitlers personal order.
@@gregryan7761 general's name ?
@ TA...Heinz Guderian. I read his book, very impressive leader. it happened after the German offensive Operation Typhoon failed to capture Moscow, Guderian was the scapegoat. One order he would not pass on was the immediate execution of any commissars, or russian political officers. He would not allow reprisals against russian civilian population. This infuriated Hitler greatly. He was also a great believer that Germany needed a better tank to fight the T-34, he suggested to hitler that they should simply copy the russian tank. None of things endeared him with leadership. He was a maverick.
@@gregryan7761 If Guderian followed those orders I would be surprised. Hitler had the SS for this kind of work. And Gestapo also. As an officer he knew well that this would be a war crime and strongly punishable. Germany had a history of losong WW1 so it was a possibility they would lose again and Guderian would end up in court.
Commissars were political soldiers and thus were sought after endlessly by the SS and in turn the SS was sought out by the commissars. See film Brest Castle for this dynamic.
Civilians likewise are not the domain of an officer. So Hitler's order was voided.
Hitler tried to play the armchair general but failed as many of his orders led to dire failures. Had he left the work to his generals WW2 might have ended up in Germany's favor. Still its understandable that with so many assassination attempts, many of which came from his generals, he would try to bypass them and lead the war himself.
Recently read that the resources required to copy T-34 would make the effort inefficient. So they never attempted it. Also the tank suffered from malfunction and low production quality as it was mass produced with great speed.
@@oleopathic Thank you for your opinion. Everyone has one.
One of the best war movies of all time!
Also a criminally underrated one.
Especially when you took out the t-34 tanks with the mines they changed everything
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki there was a e. Prussia!
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki This idiot here is spamming every thread with same nonsense.
The best anti war war film ever made.
YES!
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Filmed at former Yugoslavia ground! Proud of it...
I concur.
Id say the movie stalingrad, das boot, all quiet on the western front (first snd second one) and afew others are ontop too
Still the finest WW2 film. Peckinpah's only one. What an unsung genius. Slow motion is awesome for such subjects. And the crazy drumming......
I agree.
Unsung? Sam unsung?
To the comments about this being pro German propaganda!
Stupid is as stupid does.
This is from a novel written by a German eastern front soldier.
It is anti war and anti Nazi.
Steiner isn't pro war ,pro Nazi , pro aristocracy, pro status quo. He was good at his job or he would DIE. HE WAS PRO STEINER.
Not all German soldiers were barbarian with no moral center.
Some where of course as all humans are. No excuses just factual.
Steiner was a tiny cog in a machine that wanted him Dead. He used his wit to preserve his life and the men under him as long as he could.
To do otherwise GUARANTEED his men's and his own demise.
I don't think this movie is about which side is better, it's just a film about the horror of total warfare
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki You should read some books, world aint black and white. It was such a huge war and have read many different and amazing stories that happened in eastern front.
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Stop read wikipedia and start read some books. Typical youtuber
Sam Peckinpah made some truly remarkable movies - this is one of them.
He read the Hassel books, yes sir.
"I had no part in it" in reference to not him making the orders kinda follows the whole "I was following orders". Sure, he never made those orders, but he made the decision to do so, valuing his life over people who weren't him, and fellow Germans no less.
But the way Kruger's growls " those fucking idiots " always make the goosebumps rise.
'Cross of Iron' is one of my favourite wartime movie !! James Coburn plays as the staid and revengeful Sgt. Steiner ! But till now I still puzzle at the last episode of this movie.
They ran out of money during production so they made up a new ending on the spot.
@@bulldogsbob Plausible !! They should end the movie by something solemn, with the intensity of the war.
@@shaharinyusof2538 The original ending had Steiner kill himself and Stransky with a grande.
@@bulldogsbob Thanks for the info ! The original script should be abolished, since it was too sorrowful !!!
A few frames of this film is worth more than a dozen Saving Private Ryans. More balls and talent in Sam Peckinpah than Spielberg could ever hope for. Orson Welles loved this film.
That disturbing staccato drumming that plays in the background when Steiner loses it!
One of the best war films ever made-It's got David Warner in his third Peckinpah picture-Straw Dogs and Ballad of Cable Hogue the earlier ones-they got along and Sam could be very difficult to get along with-James Mason and Maxillian Schell and Coburn was in Major Dundee and Pat Garrett and Billy the kid----Sam had many demons but he was a true cinematic genius up there with the greats
An alcoholic.
Yeah, he had a circle of actors and crew with whom he liked to work and got on with, such as Coburn, Kristofferson, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, L Q Jones, Strother Martin, Steve McQueen amongst many others.
I put up a newly-shot interview with David Warner on Peckinpah and the three films they made: th-cam.com/video/jNh_6qpUvt0/w-d-xo.html
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The way this scene is directed makes it a masterpiece. Music, cuts, everything is just brilliant !!
This scene changed my thinking in life. Always will remember this scene for the rest of my life. Vengeance is the justification of liberty.
cross of iron full movie
An incredible film esp in the "uncut" version , wish todays film makers could make films like this
Historical accuracy to the maximum capability for the time. Very impressive.
Era pendejo cuando ví esta maravilla. Pocas veces sentí tanta angustia e impotencia. Una verdadera pesadilla. Me voló la cabeza.
Primera vez en mi vida que escuchaba gritos en una pelicula de guerra. Cuando era mas chico siempre los soldados morian cayendo como saco de papas sin chistar. Esta pelicula fue diferente. La angustia de los gristos de espanto, la camara lenta que remarca todavia mas la pesadilla sin fin de la guerra es algo que marcó mi alma a fuego. Ya tengo 52 años y no creo que sienta algo igual. Todo está maravillosamente justo. Los redobles de tambores que marcan el comienza del drama. La increible edicion, los tiros de camara, las tomas desde angulos nuevos. Todo.
La escena en donde el oficial se muestra comprensivo y Steiner le dice que lo desprecia. La cara huesuda, ngulosa y sufriente de James es algo increible.
Podria estar horas y horas.
Film como ya no se hacen
Such a powerful brilliant film and shows the horrors of war brilliant casting sets and locations and of course Sam peckinpahs direction
Good God, slow motion video combined with real time sound, how was this technique never copied by anyone else?
Instead the hacks that followed slowed down both the video and audio to produce the lame 'n....o...o....o...o...o...o' as the hero dives for the gun / knife/ bomb / whatever. Sam peckinpah, I salute you. I can see you splicing together the video and sound by hand back in the 70's suffering for your art.
This was the culmination of a brilliant film that Sam peckinpah was able to pull out of his tormented head. The avenging angel, Steiner, (James Colburn) witnessed the the betrayal of his beloved squad (his surrogate children). We feel every gunshot. Both Pechinpah and Colburn are anchors in this movie.
It was copied little by John Woo
@@AudieHolland You dont get it, its about editing small clips of small motion in mids of normal speed film roll. Totally different thing. Onlyone closest who has done it is John Woo who was fan of him.
@@AndyP998 Ah well, I'm not a fan of Peckinpah or Woo anyway. "Cross of Iron" was the only one I like because of the World War 2 setting.
@@AudieHolland Well its not about being fan, you made a statement of slow motion scene which is totally different style used by directors. I made my point, they have nothing in common
@@AndyP998 I thought keeping Steiner as a helpless observer and the machine gun crew in real time was a nice touch.
In terms of technique, now w/computer graphics they can just speed it up and slow it down snippets at will. The slow motion will be interspersed with no sound in a scene that is mostly in regular time. For example, a motorcycle flip or a single knife wound. Eh .. .good enough I guess. Tarantino seems to like that technique but I find him a bit irritating.
Peckinpah really had to labor over his editing in the 70's, no computer aids then.
The most heart wrenching scene of this film . And the most satisfying when Steiner riddled that scumbag with lead .
peckenpah was an outstanding director, my favorite was the wild bunch...still is
A shame for this being one of the last grasps of Sam Peckinpah's great talent. And although it was successful in Europe for EMI Films in the UK, and Constantin Film in Germany, respectively, AVCO Embassy, the American distributors for this, picked the absolute *_WORST_* time to release it in the U.S, all due to a certain science-fiction picture that came to theatres 43 years ago today: *_Star Wars._*
He gave his life essence to this film but how many of us could claim we reached this far?
Cross of iron came out in the US in May 77...Star wars came out a month later....I saw both at 14 and liked cross of iron a lot more...
The film Peckinpah produced was savaged by the editors, we love cross of iron as it is but Peckinpahs original was a masterpiece (apparently)
Now I'm really curious about how it would have been! I had no idea.
I am also curious tell me more
@@manweller1 well, for one thing the ending was supposed to be far more epic with a huge battle at the end. the cowardly major gets killed at the end along with steiner and all of his men. they ran out of money and had to end it suddenly and peckinpah was so upset that he sat crying at the train station getting wasted with booze. thats the only different thing I know that happened to the film.
@@AndreSilva-wh4vn well, for one thing the ending was supposed to be far more epic with a huge battle at the end. the cowardly major gets killed at the end along with steiner and all of his men. they ran out of money and had to end it suddenly and peckinpah was so upset that he sat crying at the train station getting wasted with booze. thats the only different thing I know that happened to the film.
@@uraigroves7898 Thank you!
Demarcation is moving as by this stage of the film it's impossible with the exception of the loathsome Zoll not to like these scared doomed men.
An epic, magnificent film! RIP SP.
I can think of more than a few officers in Vietnam who should have been dealt with like this.
SAM PECKINPAH captures the Horror Of War In The Eastern Front. i wish this film was in bluray, Europe is lucky they have it in bluray. Sam Peckinpah film is masterpiece.
I have it in blue ray...
Sam Peckinpah one of the best Hollywood film directors of all times ! The " Strow dogs" certainly one of the best of all times !
En mi humilde opinion... Una obra de arte... Sin dudas, una de las 5 mejores peliculas de guerra de la historia... Sam Peckinpah y James Coburn dos leyendas del cine... Que mas se puede decir??
Totalmente de acuerdo.
I really like how "dirty" and "tired" all of these soldiers look. No tidy uniforms, not style anymore. They are slowly losing the battle and are just using and wearing whatever they had. You can hardly even tell the difference between the Germans and the Soviet soldiers (except for the helmets maybe).. Very realistic war movie!
That's what I like about Peckinpah's movies. Everybody looks real.
MASTERPIECE FOR ETERNITY.
One of the top emotional scenes, from a top-10 ww2 film ever been.
Top three best war movies of all time
when we are pushed and under strain there is no end in war still will be the best war movie ever made
Best war film ever. 🔥🔥🔥
The look on Steiners face you knew payback was coming
When this film was first released it was a R18 .great film.
It still is
That's because one of the Germans forces his manhood into a female POW's mouth.
But he is very, very sorry a few moments later.
That bites.
Most impressive scene I have ever seen.
It's a masterpiece!!!!!
+tomasz nowakowski i am not sure
100 times better than those holly war theme
tomasz nowakowski no IT s a piece of shit Germans against Germans of course this is what the People want to see. silly. and a german granny solider they fought in the Volkssturm units 45 we re always shown aß idiots always good to know how they really were
@@mrpaddy3318 You need to watch the film, not just it by one 5-minute sequence
@@mrpaddy3318 Maybe you need to growup too
I love Sam Peckinpah movies. They're always filled with violence.
This scene reminds me to a real happened incident, but during WW1. It where Italain POW's, dressed like Germans who where shot by Belgian soldiers, there allies. These Italian soldiers, who where killed by friendly fire, are burried in Houthulst, Belgium. RIP.
Good film by the way, i really enjoyed this one!
Then there's the Wormhoudt Massacre of May 1940, WW2.
Shame though both Karl "Schnurrbart" Reisenauer, and Maag, and Kern died though made me cry the most, but although Rolf Steiner, Kruger, and Paul Anselm survived,
Colby James
I cried when he thought about Dietz, poor Dietz was just a boy, along side the little Russian soldier
They all died during the final Russian attack at the end (a few minutes after the "Demarcation" scene happened).
Though not shown, I doubt they survived the end scene.
Best war movie ever made.
Well say that it is one of the best becaus they are a lot of great war movies
I just wish it was made in German. That American English thing really bothers me.
Peckinpah was BORN to make this film! Except for the very end when they ran out of $$
Top 10 war movies definately. Some great actors on this one.
lol I was about to upload this scene. Glad to see I'm not the only one who likes it.
I love the way James Coburn screams "YOU! STOP!"
James Coburn is my favorite actor.
Defo in my top 5… loved this movie growing up and Stalingrad 1993!
immortal war movie...
Coburn should have said, afterwards, "And I had no part in THAT.'"
oneliners would have ruined the movie.
seen this movie dozens of times...
Mon film de guerre préféré !!! Ce film est magistrale !!!
Peckinpah at his best .
Intense WWll film, from the German point of view. This scene is better than any from Hacksaw Ridge! Peckinpah sure knew how to make 'em!
It is 47 years now. Upload the full movie
Favourite ww2 film ever
An outstanding movie. My favorite WW2 movie.
Don't FUCK with Steiner!!!!!!!
Just another incredible James Coburn performance.
From the director this was an excellent found from WW II battleground when didn´t know who is the who under the confusion
I love this movie, the director, the action, the story... I feel that i'm there and they mean something to me! Sounds crazy?
But thats what makes this movie a master peice. This is one of my all time favourite films!
Thank you for uploading this scene. Please can you upload the scene where they are talking about Ideals, war? Its near the begining where they say "War is for the the truely cultured people" and "War is the extention of state policies"
出世欲にかられた将校の裏切りによって自分の部下が敵兵扱いされて射殺されるこの映画最大の名場面です😭現実に戦争のどさくさに紛れて同士伐ちは有ったそうでサム▪ペキンパー監督が描きたかった戦争のエゴイズムがこの場面の映像そのものです。ガンマニアの自分がビックリしたのは劇中のソ連製短機関銃PPSH41がドラム弾倉搭載だと７３発も撃てる事です。射殺シーンをスローモーションで薬莢が大量に舞う様を描くサム▪ペキンパー監督は天才🏆弾倉が空になるまで銃弾を将校に撃ち込むシュタイナー軍曹はまさに鬼神❗
Great movie
nobody kills steiner but steiner.
I liked that intro with kinder tune and war scenes. Hänschen klein
These are real good war movies, not today's fantastical garbage.
@Agundis1825 You're so right. I watched the documentary Passion and Poetry and yes, he was an amazing actor. I watched this when I was like, 16? That scream is something that stays with you.
Y'know...that scene 6:39, where Steiner ventilates that shitbird, Triebig needs it's own clip.
+Nick Mitsialis You mean gif. I agree.
+Roy Phillips :-) tech was never my strong point.
What's with the milk can finger drumming though?
6.43
Brilliant film one of my fav war films,coburn was awesome in it
I wish they would restore this film. Even in the 90s, it had become very dark and hard to pick out the details.
The shocking moment of truth when you discover, that the Triebigs claims, that he had no part in it, it was all someone elses orders, and than the namless soldier apologising afterwrads summs up post-war german behavior...
funny how you all think this is reduced to german behaviour. most american soldiers involved in war crimes didn't know anything after the war.
@ CrazyTraffic: Straw Man argument on your part, therefore irrelevant.
@ Feherlofia85: Very perceptive observation of a subtle point that most people have missed when watching "Cross of Iron."
@@danielallenbutler1782 certainly no straw man argument, . your reaction proves me right that allied crimes are largely put under the carpet until this day.
@@nightwish1000 Your reply shows that you have no understanding of what constitutes a straw man argument. Feherlofia85 made no mention either way of whether or not war crimes were committed by American forces -- you introduced that in an attempt to rebut him. Nor did he imply that ONLY the Germans committed crimes against humanity -- he was addressing how one specific scene summed up the Germans' postwar view of and reaction to their own actions.
I suppose a case could be made that you've actually presented a red herring, but in either case, straw man or red herring, your attempted point is equally irrelevant within the actual context of Feherlofia85's comment. Sorry, but there it is, whether you're able to recognize it or not.
@@danielallenbutler1782 honestly I do not care how you label it in order to actually rebut me, but my comment was meant to stress the fact that his claim of " typical post-war german behavior..." is nothing which can be reduced to germans only but to soldiers who committed crimes in general. adding this perspective without neglecting his point has nothing to do with a straw man. the behaviour shown is simply not typical for german soldiers only but for all.
Una de las mejores películas antibélica de todos los tiempos.
wish this film would be remade now, with a good budget,,,excellent book
Like almost any re-make that is churned out of Hollywood these days, it wouldn't come close to the level of realism or intensity in Peckinpah's film, no matter how big the budget
Was made in 1977, and even now still looks bloody excellent. No CGI BS, what you see is real.
I hate remakes, they are usually dumbed down and lose the magic that was in the original, God, take the remakes of Excalibur (King Arthur) ffs, all that were made after the 1981 movie are total crap, even though they had massive budgets.
This movie had a nice budget. Plus, all the equipment was free.
No it wasnt sufficient budget Jules, ending was totally rushed and had to be filmed in just day and got changed totally. Those hollywood clowns would never give money to movie made from german perspective, which is sad.
There was only one Sam Peckinpah.
Love this movie. But I just can't stand that Schnurrbart gets shot, it's just too sad!
To me it's the one who gave covering fire, even though he was seriously injured he sacrificed himself for his paltoon. Always gets me close to tears.
Brilliant film but what were the chances of Steiners platoon arriving back at the front line exactly where Lt Treibic and his old unit were stationed.
*Steiner has joined the server*
*Team killing is now enabled*
James Colburn plays an American in Combat and now he plays Steine in Cross of Iron. He could have it both ways. Cross of Iron was a better movie.
At it was better then playing an Ozzie in the Great Escape!
SAM "SLOW MOTION" PECKINPAH
Einer der besten Filme aller Zeiten
TRES Heavy!
See this why you wait till dark to advance.
Terrific scene. But that MG42 has about half the actual firing rate...
Demarcation!!😮😥
I remember watching this scene & thinking nooooooo !
Just realized that ppsh sounds just like the one in the first Call of Duty.
Sergent steiner and team ☝
Here's something to do. Think of all the classic war movies. Imagine yourself a soldier serving in an infantry rifle company. Now out of those classic characters; make up your own ideal company. As a serving soldier we did this a while back for fun. Lee Marvin would always be a company sergeant major (nobody f@@ks with Lee Marvin) company commander Richard Burton etc......
Thus really happened in alternate reality of a off the books black op in a galazy far far away
Johnstone... yeah, I have a cousin in the movie business. Actually saw a UNCENSORED print of this movie..night and day difference...god damn censors.
Bayoneting that bad officer at the end was probably a bit redundant, given he’d been shot about 20 times. Still.....satisfying though.
Still wanted to vent his anger l bet.......
filled with hate and anger at the man who ordered the death of his friends, also..he could also step in later if anyone said steiner killed him he could claim the death for himself..and save steiner
I think the bayonet piece was edited out but put back in later.
Fantastic movie 👍
In the book, it mentions that he lost his love in a mountain climbing accident. Anne was her name.That was the most detail Ich erinern
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