Schwarzenegger, in his prime as an action star, is mostly subdued, giving a few of his traditional one - liners («Stick around» punctuates a scene in which he impales someone standing, and
his unintentionally funny line, «Get to da choppa!»
The German forces are represented by Kapitan Kahn (Thomas Kretschmann, Europe's hammiest leading man; see Dario Argento's Dracula 3D), who keeps the pretty blonde peasant Masha (Yanina Studilina) hidden away to rape at his whim while also falling in love with her, and Khenze (Heiner Lauterbach), the bald tyrant of a head officer, who spits out some of the film's
unintentionally funniest lines («These damn lice can't even let a man die without making him itch.»)