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The Fourth War
UNITED STATES · 1990

The Fourth War

John Frankenheimer
Cold War tension military command international conflict border standoff soldier loyalty
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Synopsis

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 ba

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