The Odessa File with Jon Voight: DVD Cover
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The Odessa File Director: Ronald Neame Cast: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm

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  • DVD Release Date: 01/11/2000
  • Original Release: 1974
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 4,872

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The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is investigating the whereabouts of missing Nazi war criminals. After reading the diary of a Holocaust survivor who has recently committed suicide, Miller goes on the trail of in-hiding SS officer Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell). The reporter finds his investigation blocked by members of a secretive group called Odessa. With the help of Israeli activists, Miller persists in his search. Schell's sister Maria also appears in The Odessa File as Miller's mother, the widow of a German soldier. Based on a nailbiting novel by Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File is highlighted by the exquisitely Teutonic score of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Interesting early versionby voraciousreaderFL

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April 06, 2009: It was interesting to see Jon Voight in one of his earlier films. Not great, but a nice movie to watch on a rainy day.

The Truth of Odessa Revealed by Simon Wiesenthal Himself!by Anonymous

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December 05, 2005: Odessa was real. Odessa was as real as the Holocaust itself. As real as Der Fuhrer, the paper hanger turned monster mass murderer on a scale unprecendented in the history of the planet, Adolph Hitler, and his all too willing henchmen, Goering, Himmler, Eichmann all were real. As real as "The Final Solution”, as grotesque and horrid as it was, was real. Simon Wiesenthal makes a cameo appearance in the film as testimony to the veracity of the organization created in the final days of World War II solely to save, protect and relocate the most evil men who have ever walked the face of the planet earth. John Voigt does a stellar job as the seemingly naive reporter who sees perhaps the hidden jewel of a story in the journal of an old Jew who had just committed suicide. With the help of his new found friends, Mossad agents, Voigt doggedly pursues the trail of a SS officer relocated and with a new identity, Eduard Rochemann, played equally superbly by Maximillian Schell, a man for whom "The Final Solution" was in summation merely a technical matter. As I have, you don't have to stand gazing at the ovens and gas chambers in the Dacau death camp near Munich, or the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, or on top of Masada as an Israeli Officer takes his oath of office to appreciate the story that this film shares with us. But there's even more, the exquisitely executed twist at the end of the film is so satisfying as to call for an applause and tossing some popcorn. An excellent thriller. An excellent film built around the true story of the organization known as ODESSA. Watch it!!!