The Odessa File (1974)

2h 10m · 17 Oct 1974

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

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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.

Movie ID	108904
Genre	Thriller
Director	Ronald Neame
Main cast	Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, Klaus Löwitsch, Kurt Meisel
Release date	17 October 1974
Release year	1974
Language	German
Duration	130 min (2h 10m)
Rating	6.6 / 10 (TMDB)
Production house	John Woolf Productions