The Odessa File

Oct 17, 1974

2h 10m

★ 6.6

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

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.

Genres

Thriller

Production Companies

John Woolf Productions

Columbia Pictures

Domino Productions

Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH

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Cast

Peter Miller

Jon Voight

Eduard Roschmann

Maximilian Schell

Frau Miller

Maria Schell

Sigi

Mary Tamm

Klaus Wenzer

Derek Jacobi

David Porath

Peter Jeffrey

Gustav Mackensen

Klaus Löwitsch

Alfred Oster

Kurt Meisel

General Glücks

Hannes Messemer

Israeli General

Garfield Morgan

Simon Wiesenthal

Shmuel Rodensky

Werner Deilmann

Ernst Schröder

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