Cross of Iron, the 1977 Sam Peckinpah English/German World War II (WWII) military action thriller ("The power of Peckinpah has never been so real... Or so brilliant!"; "Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein"; filmed in Yugoslavia) starring James Coburn ("as Sergeant Steiner"), Maximilian Schell ("as Captain Stansky"), James Mason ("as Colonel Brandt"), Klaus Lowitsch, David Warner ("as Captain Kiesel"), Vadim Glowna, Senta Berger (billed as "in the part of Eva"), Fred Stillkrauth, Roger Fritz, Burkhard Driest, Dieter Schidor, Michael Nowka, and Arthur Brauss.