The Odessa File poster
Director Ronald Neame
Screenplay George Markstein, Kenneth Ross

The Odessa File

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

Release Date: 1974-10-17

Duration: 130 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jon Voight
    Peter Miller
  • Derek Jacobi
    Klaus Wenzer
  • Klaus Löwitsch
    Gustav Mackensen
  • Maria Schell
    Frau Miller
  • Peter Jeffrey
    David Porath
  • Maximilian Schell
    Eduard Roschmann
  • Günter Meisner
    General Greifer
  • Jean-Pierre Zola
    Landlord (uncredited)
  • Oskar Werner
    Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited)
  • Volker Prechtel
    Günther Kolb (uncredited)