The Odessa File 1974

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 130 min

genre: thriller

theme: independent

director: Ronald Neame

Score: 5 / 10

The Odessa File is an 1974 thriller film, adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, about a reporter's investigation of a neo-Nazi political-industrial network in post-Second World War West Germany. The film stars Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell and was directed by Ronald Neame, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It was the only film that the Schell siblings made together.

Plot

On 22 November 1963, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Peter Miller (Jon Voight), a young freelance reporter in Hamburg, West Germany, pulls his car over to the kerb to listen to a radio report of the event. As a result, he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway.

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author	Frederick Forsyth
contentLocation	Germany
director	Ronald Neame
editor	Ralph Kemplen
genre	political thriller
keywords	berlin police claim eduard roschmann elderly man end explore factory owner fake id fake passport freelance reporter freelancer german war crimes hamburg history of egypt under gamal abdel nasser holocaust survivor holocaust survivors john f. kennedy assassination kennedy assassination kill meet missile guidance missile guidance system mossad nasserist egypt nazi war criminal nazi war criminals odessa oskar werner passport photo pick up riga ghetto secret organization simon wiesenthal ss officer think train station wait war criminal west west berlin west berlin police west germany work out world war ii young man
musicBy	Andrew Lloyd Webber
producer	John and James Woolf John R. Sloan
productionCompany	Domino Productions John Woolf Productions Oceanic Filmproduktion
publisher	Columbia Pictures
recordedAt	Merkenstraße
theme	independent political thriller