A scene from Cross of Iron 1977
Sergeant Steiner

Why do you want it so badly? [shows Stransky his Iron Cross] It's just a piece of worthless metal.

Captain Stransky

It's not worthless to me. Sergeant, if I do not return with the Iron Cross, I couldn't face my family.

Sergeant Steiner

Personally, sir, I don't feel you deserve the Iron Cross.

In this scene

Sergeant Steiner James Coburn More Sergeant Steiner quotes →
Captain Stransky Maximilian Schell

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Captain Kiesel Steiner is a myth. Men like him are our last hope and in that sense, he is a truly dangerous man.
(When asked by Captain Stransky to describe who Steiner is) Captain Kiesel I feel he thinks he is on some kind of special mission, that is, to achieve spiritual domination of his battalion, thereby symbolising the purity of the great German Wehrmacht itself, even when going down in defeat. If they're the last of us, Stransky and Steiner, then God help us!
(Regarding Captain Stransky) Sergeant Steiner It's all an accident, an accident of hands. Mine, others, all without mind, from one extreme to another, but neither works nor will ever. Yet we stand here in the middle of no man's land. Me and you.
(As he is releasing a captured young Russian soldier)
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