The Fourth War
| The Fourth War | |
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| Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
| Written by | Stephen Peters Kenneth Ross |
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| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
| Music by | Bill Conti |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,305,887 million[1] |
The Fourth War is a 1990 film directed by John Frankenheimer, set in West Germany of late 1980s. Its title stems from a famous quote by Albert Einstein: "I cannot predict how the Third World War shall be fought, or with what; I can, however, predict that the Fourth World War shall be waged with sticks and stones."
Plot
During the Cold War, two gung-ho army colonels - one American (Roy Scheider), the other Russian (Jurgen Prochnow) - wage their own private war against each other on the German–Czechoslovak border. As the colonels' feud gradually escalates to frightening proportions, the threat of full-scale armed conflict between both their commands goes from possible to likely to all-but-imminent.
Cast
- Roy Scheider ... Colonel Jack Knowles
- Jürgen Prochnow ... Colonel Valachev
- Tim Reid ... Lieutenant Colonel Clark
- Lara Harris ... Elena
- Harry Dean Stanton ... General Hackworth
- Dale Dye ... Sergeant Major
References
- ^ "The Fourth War (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
External links
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