The Greatest Battle
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| Directed by | Umberto Lenzi |
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| Story by | Umberto Lenzi |
| Produced by | Mino Loy Umberto Lenzi Luciano Martino |
| Starring | Helmut Berger Samantha Eggar Giuliano Gemma John Huston Stacy Keach Ray Lovelock Edwige Fenech Henry Fonda |
| Cinematography | Federico Zanni |
| Edited by | Eugenio Alabiso |
| Music by | Franco Micalizzi |
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| Distributed by | Titanus (Italy) Constantin Film (West Germany) |
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The Greatest Battle (Italian: Il grande attacco, lit. 'The Great Attack', also released as The Biggest Battle and Battle Force) is a 1978 Euro War film co-written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring an all-star ensemble cast, including Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Berger, Stacy Keach, Ray Lovelock, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, Ida Galli and John Huston. The Italian-West German-Yugoslavian co-production was produced by Mino Loy and Luciano Martino for Titanus.
The plot centers on a group of German and Allied nationals throughout the early years of World War II, including a British commando (Gemma), an American general (Fonda) and his son (Lovelock), a Jewish actress (Eggar), a war correspondent (Huston) and two very different German officers (Berger and Keach). The film climaxes in a recreation of the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia.