The Fourth War

The Fourth War
Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Written by	Stephen Peters Kenneth Ross
Starring	Roy Scheider Jürgen Prochnow Tim Reid Lara Harris Harry Dean Stanton
Music by	Bill Conti
Cinematography	Gerry Fisher
Release dates	March 23, 1990
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

1. "The Fourth War (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 8, 2015.

External links

• The Fourth War at the Internet Movie Database