The Odessa File

6.603

130 minutes

10/17/1974

Overview

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.

Cast List

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