The Odessa File
The Odessa File
Release: 1974-10-17
·Runtime: 130m
·★ 6.6
Thriller
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.
Production Countries
Germany
United Kingdom
Production Companies
John Woolf Productions
Columbia Pictures
Domino Productions
Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Towje Kleiner
as Salomon Tauber
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
as Frau Wenzer
Henning Schlüter
as Ludwig Erhard (uncredited)
Kurt Meisel
as Alfred Oster
Hannes Messemer
as General Glücks
Wolfgang Lukschy
as Sturmbannführer Kranz (uncredited)
Oskar Werner
as Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited)
Dietmar Mues
as Wehrmacht Captain
Maximilian Schell
as Eduard Roschmann
Mary Tamm
as Sigi
Hans Wyprächtiger
as Landlord
Miriam Mahler
as Esther Tauber (uncredited)
Volker Prechtel
as Günther Kolb (uncredited)
Jon Voight
as Peter Miller
Derek Jacobi
as Klaus Wenzer
Günter Meisner
as General Greifer
Christine Wodetzky
as Gisela
Herbert Fux
as Makeup Man (uncredited)
Michael Gahr
as Officer (uncredited)
Nadia Henkowa
as Israeli Secretary (uncredited)
Maria Schell
as Frau Miller
Noel Willman
as Franz Bayer
Cyril Shaps
as Tauber's Voice (voice)
Til Kiwe
as Medal Shop Proprietor
Garfield Morgan
as Israeli General
Ernst Schröder
as Werner Deilmann
Hans Caninenberg
as Dr. Ferdinand Schultz
Alexander Golling
as Colonel
Gunnar Möller
as Karl Braun
Werner Bruhns
as Hoffmann
Jean-Pierre Zola
as Landlord (uncredited)
Klaus Löwitsch
as Gustav Mackensen
Günter Strack
as Kunik
Georg Marischka
as Prosecution Attorney
Peter Jeffrey
as David Porath
