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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The "Russian" song sung by the Soviet troops is actually a Yugoslavian partisan anthem (the film was shot in Yugoslavia, with most of the Russian characters played by Yugoslav actors).
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The "Russian" song sung by the Soviet troops is actually a Yugoslavian partisan anthem (the film was shot in Yugoslavia, with most of the Russian characters played by Yugoslav actors).
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* CoolGuns: Several of the squad, including Steiner, carry captured Russian [=PPSh=] submachine guns, to great effect.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Averted. The only German soldier who is a confirmed member of the Nazi Party ([=NSDAP=]) is Zoll, a fairly minor character. Most of the others express either contempt for or indifference towards the regime.
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* NaziProtagonist: The only "evil" Nazis in the film are Captain Stransky and Zoll. Triebig, on the other hand, is an AntiVillain.
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* NaziProtagonist: The only "evil" Nazis in the film are Captain Subverted. Stransky is the {{Deuteragonist}} of the story but views the Nazi movement as crass and Zoll. Triebig, on populist, and we don't learn whether he's an [=NSDAP=] member. However, he still carries out the other hand, regime's brutal orders without question and is an AntiVillain.every bit as evil as they are.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Zoll]] suffers a brutal and humiliating GroinAttack and is soon killed after he tries to rape a female Russian soldier. It's hard to feel sorry for him, especially since he is a committed Nazi Party member.
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* AssholeVictim: AssholeVictim:
** [[spoiler: Zoll]] suffers a brutal and humiliating GroinAttack and is soon killed after he tries to rape a female Russian soldier. It's hard to feel sorry for him, especially since he is a committed Nazi Party member.
** [[spoiler: Zoll]] suffers a brutal and humiliating GroinAttack and is soon killed after he tries to rape a female Russian soldier. It's hard to feel sorry for him, especially since he is a committed Nazi Party member.
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* NaziProtagonist: The only "evil" Nazi in the film is none other than Captain Stransky. Triebig, on the other hand, is an AntiVillain.
* TheNeidermeyer: Stransky.
* TheNeidermeyer: Stransky.
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* NaziProtagonist: The only "evil" Nazi Nazis in the film is none other than are Captain Stransky.Stransky and Zoll. Triebig, on the other hand, is an AntiVillain.
* TheNeidermeyer:Stransky.Stransky is a vain, incompetent and cowardly officer who thinks his troops are all expendable in his quest to make a name for himself and win an Iron Cross. His troops know this and hate him for it.
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* SergeantRockSergeantRock: In stark contrast to Stransky, Steiner is a brave and highly capable squad leader who never orders his troops to do something he wouldn't be willing to do himself, and his main goal is to keep them alive.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: David Warner plays Captain Kiesel with an unapologetic English accent.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: David Warner plays Captain Kiesel Warner, James Mason, and James Coburn speak with an unapologetic English accent.their regular, non-German accents.
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* BathtubScene: The squad is trying to make it back to German lines when they come to a farmhouse being held by Russian women soldiers. One of them is, naturally, gorgeous and bathing naked in a barrel in the yard.
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Zoll]] has his...member bitten off by a Russian soldier he forces to perform oral sex.
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Zoll]] has his...member bitten off by a female Russian soldier he forces to perform oral sex.
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* AnArmAndALeg: A GeneralRipper type visiting the hospital sticks out his hand to shake with a wounded soldier. The soldier extends his right arm, which ends in a stump. The general cringes and then reaches for his left hand. The soldier sticks out his left arm, which also ends in a stump. Then the soldier sticks out his foot.
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* LoverAndBeloved: Lt. Triebig's smooth-cheeked young orderly, Keppler, is also his lover. Stransky sniffs this out and uses that knowledge against Triebig.
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A 1977 British-German UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1955 German novel ''The Willing Flesh'' by Willi Heinrich, who served during the war and was wounded five times. It is set on the Eastern Front, specifically the retreat from the Taman Peninsula during the Russian offensive of 1943–45.
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A 1977 British-German UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1955 German novel ''The Willing Flesh'' by Willi Heinrich, who had served during the war and was wounded five times. It is set on the Eastern Front, specifically the retreat from the Taman Peninsula during the Russian offensive of 1943–45.
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A 1977 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1955 German novel ''The Willing Flesh'' by Willi Heinrich, who served during the war and was wounded five times. It is set on the Eastern Front, specifically the retreat from the Taman Peninsula during the Russian offensive of 1943–45.
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A 1977 British-German UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1955 German novel ''The Willing Flesh'' by Willi Heinrich, who served during the war and was wounded five times. It is set on the Eastern Front, specifically the retreat from the Taman Peninsula during the Russian offensive of 1943–45.
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A 1977 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1955 German novel ''The Willing Flesh'' by Willi Heinrich, who served during the war and was wounded five times. It is set on the Eastern Front, specifically the retreat from the Taman Peninsula during the Russian offensive of 1943-1945.
The film focuses on a [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German infantry regiment]] commanded by the war-weary Colonel Brandt (Creator/JamesMason), whose subordinates include his embittered adjutant, Captain Kiesel (Creator/DavidWarner), and the battle-hardened, officer-hating Corporal (later Sergeant) Steiner (Creator/JamesCoburn). Their lives are thrown into disarray by the arrival of Captain Stransky (Creator/MaximilianSchell), an arrogant, aristocratic Prussian and a GloryHound who wants to win the Iron Cross. When Steiner refuses to lie for Stransky when the latter tries to claim credit for an attack that might get him the Iron Cross, a battle of wills ensues between the two men, and when Steiner and his squad end up behind enemy lines, he soon discovers that there are people out for his blood in both directions.
The film focuses on a [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German infantry regiment]] commanded by the war-weary Colonel Brandt (Creator/JamesMason), whose subordinates include his embittered adjutant, Captain Kiesel (Creator/DavidWarner), and the battle-hardened, officer-hating Corporal (later Sergeant) Steiner (Creator/JamesCoburn). Their lives are thrown into disarray by the arrival of Captain Stransky (Creator/MaximilianSchell), an arrogant, aristocratic Prussian and a GloryHound who wants to win the Iron Cross. When Steiner refuses to lie for Stransky when the latter tries to claim credit for an attack that might get him the Iron Cross, a battle of wills ensues between the two men, and when Steiner and his squad end up behind enemy lines, he soon discovers that there are people out for his blood in both directions.
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A 1977 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the 1955 German novel ''The Willing Flesh'' by Willi Heinrich, who served during the war and was wounded five times. It is set on the Eastern Front, specifically the retreat from the Taman Peninsula during the Russian offensive of 1943-1945.1943–45.
The film focuses on a [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German infantry regiment]]commanded led by the war-weary Colonel Brandt (Creator/JamesMason), whose subordinates include his embittered adjutant, Captain Kiesel (Creator/DavidWarner), and the battle-hardened, officer-hating Corporal (later Sergeant) Steiner (Creator/JamesCoburn). Their lives are thrown into disarray by the arrival of Captain Stransky (Creator/MaximilianSchell), an arrogant, aristocratic Prussian and a GloryHound who wants to win the Iron Cross. When Steiner refuses to lie for Stransky when the latter tries to claim credit for an attack that might get him the Iron Cross, a battle of wills ensues between the two men, and when after Steiner and his squad end up find themselves behind enemy lines, he soon discovers that there are people out for his blood in both directions.
The film focuses on a [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German infantry regiment]]
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Peckinpah's only war film, it is also notable for using a large number of accurate Soviet and German weapons and vehicles, thanks to being filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}}.
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One of only a small number of English-language films about World War II's Eastern Front; ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' is another. Peckinpah's only war film, it is also notable for using a large number of accurate Soviet and German weapons and vehicles, thanks to being filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}}.
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* StockFootage: A montage of stock footage of Nazi Germany and Eastern Front combat over the opening credits. The switch to the actual film is done rather cleverly, with clips of the movie in black-and-white blended in with the b&w stock footage, before color stock footage gives way to the film proper.
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* JustPlainWrong: Shortly after Steiner returns to the front from the hospital, the German positions come under air attack. However, the attacking planes are all highly distinctive [=F4U=] Corsairs, a type never supplied to the Soviets. They're even still in dark blue US Navy paint schemes!
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* JustPlainWrong: JustPlaneWrong: Shortly after Steiner returns to the front from the hospital, the German positions come under air attack. However, the attacking planes are all highly distinctive [=F4U=] Corsairs, a type never supplied to the Soviets. They're even still in dark blue US Navy paint schemes!
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* JustPlainWrong: Shortly after Steiner returns to the front from the hospital, the German positions come under air attack. However, the attacking planes are all highly distinctive [=F4U=] Corsairs, a type never supplied to the Soviets. They're even still in dark blue US Navy paint schemes!
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* BuryYourGays: Steiner vents his frustration at Stransky's betrayal by [[spoiler:shooting Triebig. A lot.]]
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* BuryYourGays: Debatable. While Steiner vents does vent his frustration at Stransky's betrayal by [[spoiler:shooting Triebig. A lot.]]Triebig - a lot,]] it was the man's own complicity in [[spoiler:murdering Steiner's men]] that gets him killed, not being homosexual (which Steiner almost certainly doesn't even know about).
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* BadassBaritone: Steiner. Comes with being played by Creator/JamesCoburn.
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->'''Colonel Brandt''': What will we do when we have lost the war?
->'''Captain Kiesel''': Prepare for the next one.
->'''Captain Kiesel''': Prepare for the next one.
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->'''Colonel Brandt''': Brandt:''' What will we do when we have lost the war?
->'''Captain Kiesel''':war?\\
'''Captain Kiesel:''' Prepare for the next one.
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'''Captain Kiesel:''' Prepare for the next one.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Stransky's attitude towards the soldiers under his command. According to Stransky, they're all expendable and only there to make a name for him and win him an Iron Cross.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Colonel Brandt and Lieutenant Meyer.
