The Odessa File (1974)
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
Writers:
Kenneth Ross, George Markstein.
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Jon Voight as Peter Miller |
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Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann |
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Maria Schell as Frau Miller |
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Mary Tamm as Sigi |
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Derek Jacobi as Klaus Wenzer |
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Peter Jeffrey as David Porath |
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Klaus Löwitsch as Gustav Mackensen |
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Kurt Meisel as Alfred Oster |
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Hannes Messemer as General Glücks |
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Garfield Morgan as Israeli General |
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Shmuel Rodensky as Simon Wiesenthal |
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Ernst Schröder as Werner Deilmann |
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Günter Strack as Kunik |
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Noel Willman as Franz Bayer |
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Martin Brandt as Marx |
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Hans Caninenberg as Dr. Ferdinand Schultz |
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Heinz Ehrenfreund as Shapira |
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Alexander Golling as Colonel |
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Towje Kleiner as Salomon Tauber |
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Günter Meisner as General Greifer |
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Gunnar Möller as Karl Braun |
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Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Frau Wenzer |
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Christine Wodetzky as Gisela |
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Werner Bruhns as Hoffmann |
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Til Kiwe as Medal Shop Proprietor |
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Georg Marischka as Prosecution Attorney |
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Dietmar Mues as Wehrmacht Captain |
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Hans Wyprächtiger as Landlord |
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Cyril Shaps as Tauber's Voice (voice) |
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Alexander Allerson as Dr. Ratinger (uncredited) |
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Walter Feuchtenberg as Butler (uncredited) |
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Herbert Fux as Makeup Man (uncredited) |
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Michael Gahr as Officer (uncredited) |
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Nadia Henkowa as Israeli Secretary (uncredited) |
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Wolfgang Lukschy as Sturmbannführer Kranz (uncredited) |
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Miriam Mahler as Esther Tauber (uncredited) |
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Volker Prechtel as Günther Kolb (uncredited) |
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Henning Schlüter as Ludwig Erhard (uncredited) |
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Oskar Werner as Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited) |
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Jean-Pierre Zola as Landlord (uncredited) |
| Directing | Ronald Neame | Director |
| Crew | Vic Armstrong | Stunt Double |
| Camera | Oswald Morris | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ralph Kemplen | Editor |
| Production | Pia Arnold | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Renate Neuchl | Casting |
| Production | Jenia Reissar | Casting |
| Directing | Colin M. Brewer | First Assistant Director |
| Crew | Osman Ragheb | Dialect Coach |
| Camera | Jimmy Turrell | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Derek Ball | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Gordon K. McCallum | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Leslie Hodgson | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Marcel Durham | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | Elaine Schreyeck | Continuity |
| Camera | Atze Glanert | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Directing | Wieland Liebske | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Monika Bauert | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ille Sievers | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Raimund Stangl | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Susi Krause | Hairstylist |
| Art | Werner Achmann | Construction Coordinator |
| Crew | Richard Richtsfeld | Special Effects |
| Production | Dieter Meyer | Location Manager |
| Production | Leonhard Gmür | Location Manager |
| Production | Dietmar Siegert | Location Manager |
| Writing | John Rosenberg | Script Editor |
| Production | John R. Sloan | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Kenneth Ross | Screenplay |
| Writing | George Markstein | Screenplay |
| Writing | Frederick Forsyth | Novel |
| Production | John Woolf | Producer |
| Sound | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Anthony Bowles | Conductor |
| Production | Rolf Zehetbauer | Production Designer |