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The Odessa File
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
1974 · Directed by Ronald Neame · 130 min · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.
Crew
- Screenplay: Kenneth Ross, George Markstein
- Cinematography: Oswald Morris
- Edited by: Ralph Kemplen
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Produced by: John Woolf
Cast
- Jon Voight as Peter Miller
- Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann
- Maria Schell as Frau Miller
- Mary Tamm as Sigi
- Derek Jacobi as Klaus Wenzer
- Peter Jeffrey as David Porath
- Klaus Löwitsch as Gustav Mackensen
- Kurt Meisel as Alfred Oster
- Hannes Messemer as General Glücks
- Garfield Morgan as Israeli General
Production
- Country: Germany, United Kingdom
- Language: German, Spanish, English
- Studios: John Woolf Productions, Columbia Pictures, Domino Productions, Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH
- Themes: suicide, assassin, based on novel or book, nazi, espionage, war crimes, mass murder, concentration camp, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), investigation
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