The Odessa File (film)
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| Directed by | Ronald Neame |
| Written by | Kenneth Ross George Markstein |
| Produced by | John Woolf |
| Starring | Jon Voight Maximilian Schell Maria Schell |
| Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
| Edited by | Ralph Kemplen |
| Music by | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | 1974 |
Running time | 130 min |
| Country | UK / West Germany |
| Language | English |
The Odessa File is a 1974 film adaptation of the thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, about a struggle between a young German reporter and the ODESSA, an organization for ex-Nazis. The film stars Jon Voight and was directed by Ronald Neame, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Plot summary
The plot begins on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Peter Miller, a young German reporter, happens to see an ambulance on a highway. He chases the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the World War II camps, and the names of members of the SS who ran the camp. Miller is startled to read in it that an SS officer, Eduard Roschmann, had in anger fatally shot a fellow officer whose description and rare military decorations matched those of Miller's father, who was killed in the war. Now determined to hunt Roschmann down and get revenge, Miller dares to go undercover to join and infiltrate the ODESSA and find Roschmann.
The movie's theme song was "Christmas Dream".
Film cast list
- 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 Richard Glücks
- Garfield Morgan - Israeli General
- Shmuel Rodensky - Simon Wiesenthal
- Ernst Schröder - Werner Deilman
- Günter Strack - Kunik
- Noel Willman - Franz Bayer
- Martin Brandt - Marx
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