The Odessa File

The Odessa File (1974)

Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.

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.

Date of release
1974-10-17
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (207)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Ronald Neame

Casting

  • Jon Voight — Peter Miller
  • Maximilian Schell — Eduard Roschmann
  • Maria Schell — Frau Miller
  • Mary Tamm — Sigi
  • Derek Jacobi — Klaus Wenzer
  • Peter Jeffrey — David Porath
  • Klaus Löwitsch — Gustav Mackensen
  • Kurt Meisel — Alfred Oster
  • Hannes Messemer — General Glücks
  • Garfield Morgan — Israeli General
  • Shmuel Rodensky — Simon Wiesenthal
  • Ernst Schröder — Werner Deilmann

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