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Odessa File, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) An Old Man Gassed Himself Following a prologue of a plot to destroy Israel, and Hamburg, November 22, 1963 established in the credits, Jon Voight, narrating, appears as German reporter Miller, attention diverted by the Kennedy assassination, pursuing a maybe-routine event, in the espionage thriller The ...
Purchase The Odessa File on digital and stream instantly or download offline. The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg, Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller (Jon Voight). The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian ...
Mar 27, 2020 · Directed by Ronald Neame. With Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell.Blu-ray (Amazon) : https://amzn.to/3wH3ArVBlu-ray (Powerhouse) : https://www.po...
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The film doesn't have too many memorable moments or scenes to make itself standout in a time where political thrillers were dominant during the 1970s. It doesn't have the same ferocious impact as a film like Marathon Man. The Odessa File falls slightly short of the heights of the best political thrillers of the 1970s.
While waiting on the subway platform, Miller is suddenly pushed off the platform into the path of an oncoming train, narrowly escaping with his life. Undeterred, Miller travels to Vienna to look up famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Miller's dogged persistence is starting to seriously alarm the leadership of ODESSA.
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.
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The Odessa File: Directed by Ronald Neame. With Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm. Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
