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
Jean-Pierre Zola
as Landlord (uncredited)
Jon Voight
as Peter Miller
Klaus Löwitsch
as Gustav Mackensen
Hans Caninenberg
as Dr. Ferdinand Schultz
Christine Wodetzky
as Gisela
Herbert Fux
as Makeup Man (uncredited)
Miriam Mahler
as Esther Tauber (uncredited)
Volker Prechtel
as Günther Kolb (uncredited)
Maria Schell
as Frau Miller
Günter Strack
as Kunik
Towje Kleiner
as Salomon Tauber
Til Kiwe
as Medal Shop Proprietor
Georg Marischka
as Prosecution Attorney
Derek Jacobi
as Klaus Wenzer
Ernst Schröder
as Werner Deilmann
Noel Willman
as Franz Bayer
Hans Wyprächtiger
as Landlord
Maximilian Schell
as Eduard Roschmann
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
as Frau Wenzer
Werner Bruhns
as Hoffmann
Wolfgang Lukschy
as Sturmbannführer Kranz (uncredited)
Mary Tamm
as Sigi
Kurt Meisel
as Alfred Oster
Alexander Golling
as Colonel
Günter Meisner
as General Greifer
Gunnar Möller
as Karl Braun
Dietmar Mues
as Wehrmacht Captain
Cyril Shaps
as Tauber's Voice (voice)
Peter Jeffrey
as David Porath
Hannes Messemer
as General Glücks
Garfield Morgan
as Israeli General
Michael Gahr
as Officer (uncredited)
Nadia Henkowa
as Israeli Secretary (uncredited)
Henning Schlüter
as Ludwig Erhard (uncredited)
Oskar Werner
as Wehrmacht Officer (uncredited)
