The real glory of war is surviving
6.684
113 min
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Lee Marvin | The Sergeant | Unowned |
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Mark Hamill | Griff | Unowned |
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Robert Carradine | Zab | Unowned |
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Bobby Di Cicco | Vinci | Unowned |
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Kelly Ward | Johnson | Unowned |
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Stéphane Audran | Walloon | Unowned |
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Siegfried Rauch | Schroeder | Unowned |
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Serge Marquand | Rensonnet | Unowned |
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Charles Macaulay | General / Captain | Unowned |
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Alain Doutey | Broban | Unowned |
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Maurice Marsac | Vichy Colonel | Unowned |
| Colin Gilbert | Dog Face POW | Unowned | |
| Joseph Clark | Shep | Unowned | |
| Ken Campbell | Lemchek | Unowned | |
| Doug Werner | Switolski | Unowned | |
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Perry Lang | Kaiser | Unowned |
| Howard Delman | Smitty | Unowned | |
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Marthe Villalonga | Madame Marbaise | Unowned |
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Giovanna Galletti | Woman in Sicilian Village | Unowned |
| Gregori Buimistre | The Hun | Unowned | |
| Shimon Barr | German Male Nurse | Unowned | |
| Matteo Zoffoli | Sicilian Boy | Unowned | |
| Abraham Ronai | German Field Marshall | Unowned | |
| Galit Rotman | Pregnant Frenchwoman | Unowned | |
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Samuel Fuller | War Correspondent (uncredited) | Unowned |
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Christa Lang | German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited) | Unowned |