Movie
The Odessa File
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1974-10-17
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Genres
- Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- John Woolf Productions, Columbia Pictures, Domino Productions, Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
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
- Shmuel Rodensky as Simon Wiesenthal
- Ernst Schröder as Werner Deilmann
Crew
- Ronald Neame - Director
- Kenneth Ross - Screenplay
- George Markstein - Screenplay
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