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The Fourth War (1990)

1h 30m | R | Action
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Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Stanton, Dale Dye, Bill MacDonald, David Palffy
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider) and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev (Jürgen Prochnow), 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.
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