The Fourth War

Name: The Fourth War
Director: John Frankenheimer
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1990-01-12
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton

Directed by John Frankenheimer

Drama

Thriller

19901h 31m5.2

Overview

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.