The Odessa File
Thriller
Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.
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.
1974-10-17
en
Cast
Director
Ronald Neame
Jon Voight as Peter Miller
Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann
Maria Schell as Frau Miller
Mary Tamm as Sigi
Derek Jacobi as Klaus Wenzer
Peter Jeffrey as David Porath
Klaus Löwitsch as Gustav Mackensen
Kurt Meisel as Alfred Oster
Hannes Messemer as General Glücks
Garfield Morgan as Israeli General
Shmuel Rodensky as Simon Wiesenthal
Ernst Schröder as Werner Deilmann
Günter Strack as Kunik
Noel Willman as Franz Bayer
Hans Caninenberg as Dr. Ferdinand Schultz
Alexander Golling as Colonel
Towje Kleiner as Salomon Tauber
Günter Meisner as General Greifer
Gunnar Möller as Karl Braun
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Frau Wenzer
Christine Wodetzky as Gisela
Werner Bruhns as Hoffmann
Til Kiwe as Medal Shop Proprietor
Georg Marischka as Prosecution Attorney
Dietmar Mues as Wehrmacht Captain
Hans Wyprächtiger as Landlord
Cyril Shaps as Tauber's Voice (voice)
Herbert Fux as Makeup Man (uncredited)
Michael Gahr as Officer (uncredited)
Nadia Henkowa as Israeli Secretary (uncredited)
Wolfgang Lukschy as Sturmbannführer Kranz (uncredited)
Miriam Mahler as Esther Tauber (uncredited)
Volker Prechtel as Günther Kolb (uncredited)
Henning Schlüter as Ludwig Erhard (uncredited)
Oskar Werner as Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Zola as Landlord (uncredited)