The Odessa File is a 1974 film adaptation of the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth, about a struggle between a young German reporter and the ODESSA, an organization for ex-Nazis. The film stars Jon Voight and was directed by Ronald Neame, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. On November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated Peter Miller, a young German freelance reporter, pulls to the curb 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. He chases the ambulance and discovers it is... en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the World War II Riga Ghetto, and the name of the SS officer who ran the camp, Eduard Roschmann. Determined to hunt Roschmann down, Miller dares to go undercover to join and infiltrate the ODESSA and find Roschmann, who now runs a high tech company which plans to send radio gyroscopes and biochemical warheads to Egypt to use against Israel.
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| Release date: | 1974 |
| Directed by: | Ronald Neame |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 130 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sir John Woolf, John R. Sloan, James Woolf |
| Editor: | Ralph Kemplen |
| Music by: | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Cinematography: | Oswald Morris |
| Screenplay by: | Kenneth Ross, George Markstein |
| Adapted from: | The Odessa File |
| Genre: | Thriller |