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 | 130m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Ronald Neame |
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| Writer: | Kenneth Ross, George Markstein, Frederick Forsyth |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 17, 1974 |
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| Director: | Ronald Neame |
| Writer: | Kenneth Ross, George Markstein, Frederick Forsyth |
| Genres: | Thriller |
| Keywords | suicide, nazi, mass murder, investigation, war criminal, based on novel or book, war crimes, ss (nazi schutzstaffel), execution, assassin, espionage, concentration camp, revenge |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures, John Woolf Productions, Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH, Domino Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Hans Caninenberg | Dr. Ferdinand Schultz |
| Heinz Ehrenfreund | Shapira |
| Alexander Golling | Colonel |
| Towje Kleiner | Salomon Tauber |
| Günter Meisner | General Greifer |
| Gunnar Möller | Karl Braun |
| Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel | Frau Wenzer |
| Christine Wodetzky | Gisela |
| Werner Bruhns | Hoffmann |
| Til Kiwe | Medal Shop Proprietor |
| Georg Marischka | Prosecution Attorney |
| Dietmar Mues | Wehrmacht Captain |
| Hans Wyprächtiger | Landlord |
| Cyril Shaps | Tauber's Voice (voice) |
| Alexander Allerson | Dr. Ratinger (uncredited) |
| Walter Feuchtenberg | Butler (uncredited) |
| Herbert Fux | Makeup Man (uncredited) |
| Michael Gahr | Officer (uncredited) |
| Nadia Henkowa | Israeli Secretary (uncredited) |
| Wolfgang Lukschy | Sturmbannführer Kranz (uncredited) |
| Miriam Mahler | Esther Tauber (uncredited) |
| Volker Prechtel | Günther Kolb (uncredited) |
| Henning Schlüter | Ludwig Erhard (uncredited) |
| Oskar Werner | Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited) |
| Jean-Pierre Zola | Landlord (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ronald Neame | Director |
| Werner Achmann | Construction Coordinator |
| Pia Arnold | Production Supervisor |
| Colin M. Brewer | First Assistant Director |
| Derek Ball | Sound Recordist |
| Marcel Durham | Assistant Editor |
| Wieland Liebske | Assistant Director |
| Raimund Stangl | Makeup Artist |
| Richard Richtsfeld | Special Effects |
| Dietmar Siegert | Location Manager |
| Kenneth Ross | Screenplay |
| Ralph Kemplen | Editor |
| Jenia Reissar | Casting |
| Jimmy Turrell | Camera Operator |
| Leslie Hodgson | Sound Editor |
| Renate Neuchl | Casting |
| Osman Ragheb | Dialect Coach |
| Gordon K. McCallum | Sound Recordist |
| Elaine Schreyeck | Continuity |
| Monika Bauert | Costume Design |
| Susi Krause | Hairstylist |
| Dieter Meyer | Location Manager |
| John Rosenberg | Script Editor |
| George Markstein | Screenplay |
| Atze Glanert | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Ille Sievers | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Leonhard Gmür | Location Manager |
| Frederick Forsyth | Novel |
| Anthony Bowles | Conductor |
| Oswald Morris | Director of Photography |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | Original Music Composer |
| Rolf Zehetbauer | Production Designer |
| Vic Armstrong | Stunt Double |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| John Woolf | Producer |
| John R. Sloan | Co-Producer |
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