The Odessa File
1974/10/17 • Released • German, Spanish, English
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.
Director : Ronald Neame
Casts
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
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)
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)
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