The Fourth War
- Released on
- Runtime
- 91 mins
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on opposite sides of the German-Czech border. Both men are responsible for a group of troops in their remote settings, and both have been shaped by their combat experiences and a shared aversion to their superiors' ways of doing things. After a defector is killed, things escalate into a full-fledged battle with serious geopolitical ramifications.
Cast
- Roy Scheider
- Jürgen Prochnow
- Tim Reid
- Lara Harris
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Dale Dye
- William MacDonald
- David Palffy
- Neil Grahn
- Ernie Jackson
- Ron Campbell
- John Dodds
- Richard Durven
- Harold Hecht Jr.
- Alice Pesta
- Gregory A. Gale
- Henry Kope
- Guy Buller
- George Scholl
- Garry Galinsky
- Ed Soibelman
- Gary Spivak
- Yefim Korduner
- Brent Woolsey
- Kent McNeill
- Brian Warren
- Roman Podhora
- Joseph Vrba
- Gordon Signer
- Lilo Bahr
- Claus Diedrich
- Kyle Maschmeyer
- Kurt Darmohray
- Igor Burstyn
- Matus Ginzberg
- Boris Novogrudsky
- Tom Kelly
- Larry Laverty
Director
- John Frankenheimer
Producers
- Wolf Schmidt
Screenwriter
- Stephen Peters
- Kenneth Ross
