The Odessa File (1974)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 5
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 3
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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
Oct 18, 1974 Wide
Aug 28, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Jon Voight
Peter Miller -
Maximilian Schell
Eduard Roschmann -
Maria Schell
Frau Miller -
Mary Tamm
Sigi -
Derek Jacobi
Klaus Wenzer -
Shmuel Rodensky
Simon Wiesenthal -
Martin Brandt
Marx -
Werner Bruhns
Magazine Publisher Hoff... -
Hans Caninberg
Dr. Ferdinand Schultz -
Alexander Golling
Colonel -
Peter Jeffrey
David Porath -
Towje Kleiner
Solomon Tauber -
Klaus Lowitsch
Gustav MacKensen -
Georg Marischka
Lawyer -
Kurt Meisel
Oster -
Günter Meisner
Gen. Greifer -
Hannes Messemer
Gen. Glocks -
Garfield Morgan
Israeli General -
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Frau Wenzer -
Ernst Schroeder
Werner Deilman -
Cyril Shaps
Tauber -
Günter Strack
Police Official Kunik -
Noel Willman
Franz Bayer -
Hans Wyprächtiger
Landlord -
Heinz Ehrenfreund
Shapira -
Joachim D. Mues
Wehrmacht Captain -
Til Kiwe
Medal Shop Proprietor -
Gunnar Moeller
Karl Braun -
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (5) | DVD (7)
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.
Top CriticThe film makes its points methodically, almost academically.
The surprises increasingly fail to surprise.
Above average spy adventure w/young Jon Voight.
Neame's uninspired direction has a great performance by Jon Voight get thrown under the train.
Unfortunately, this ends up being mostly a series of mano-a-mano confrontations behind closed doors, with the "revelations" reaching absurd level by the end.
Genuinely effective thriller.
Tightly plotted and for the most part pretty convincing Cold War thriller built around a typically muscular performance by Voight.
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