Rotten
The film makes its points methodically, almost academically.
Nora Sayre, New York Times
The Odessa File
Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.
1974 · 2h 10m · PG
Thriller
Directed by
Ronald Neame
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.
Director and cast
- Ronald Neame Director
- 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
- Hannes Messemer as General Richard Glücks
- Kurt Meisel as Alfred Oster
- Hans Caninenberg Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The surprises increasingly fail to surprise.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Voight's performance gives credibility to his character's obsession, but even that cannot overcome the discrepancy between the deeper themes and the routine nature of this piece of box-office action adventure.
Time Out
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