The Odessa File
“Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.”
1974•PG•2h 10m•6.6•Released
Thriller
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.
Director
Ronald Neame
Writer
George Markstein, Kenneth Ross
Languages
German, Spanish, English
Studio
John Woolf Productions
Cast
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
Günter Strack
Kunik
Noel Willman
Franz Bayer
Martin Brandt
Marx
Production
Company
John Woolf Productions
Company
Columbia Pictures
Company
Domino Productions
Company
Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer
John Woolf
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