The Fourth War

Name: The Fourth War
Genre: drama, thriller, war
Released: 1990
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 5.4
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton

The Fourth War (1990) — drama, thriller, war film. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris. This page maps 4 characters and 6 relationships between them as an interactive character network.

Interactive Features for The Fourth War

The Fourth War offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:

Character Relationship Map — Interactive D3-powered visualization of character connections, alliances, and conflicts. Explore how 4 characters interconnect through 6 relationship links.
AI Story Visualization & Plot Analysis — AI-powered breakdown of story structure, emotional arcs, turning points, and narrative progression.

Story Analysis

A Cold War thriller depicting how two rival colonels' personal vendetta nearly triggers an international conflict.

Drama, Thriller, War · 5.4/10 · 91 min · 1990

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.