The Odessa File

The Odessa File
by Ronald Neame

The Odessa File
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Actor: Derek Jacobi, Jon Voight, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell
Director: Ronald Neame
Brand: Sony
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-11
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of The Odessa File

Movie Review: A Good, Compelling Movie
Summary: 3 Stars

I first bought this movie in a VHS version. I then upgrated to a DVD edition.

The story line takes place in the early 1960's and deals with how members of the Nazi SS slipped through the Allies hands and attempts to bring them to justice after WWII. It is the story of one man's search for answers and what that search led him to.

As always, the screen writers have dievated from the novel in places, but I like the movie none the less. I view it at least once every 12 to 18 months. If you like a good drama, you'll enjoy this movie.

Summary of The Odessa File

An overeager German journalist (Jon Voight) discovers a long-buried secret plot beginning to resurface in this moderately compelling, surprisingly straightforward adaptation of a novel by conspiracy whiz Fredrick (Day of the Jackal) Forsythe. Although this somewhat pokey suspenser never quite flows the way a classic espionage thriller should, it does offer a number of compelling diversions along the way, including a blessedly nonhammy (and impressively accented) performance by Voight, Derek Jacobi's amusingly Freudian supporting turn, and a tremendously physical hand-to-hand confrontation in a print shop that leaves no pane of glass intact. Maximillian Schell's scenery-chewing, deliciously evil cameo almost makes this worth the watch by itself. Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the garishly florid (yet somehow effective) score. --Andrew Wright
The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman Peter Miller (Jon Voight). The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell) commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga Latvia. Miller launches a personal manhunt to track down Roschmann an investigation that leads him into the very heart of ODESSA a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world. When Miller finds Roschmann he learns that the former Nazi is now the leader of a weaponry complex of international strategic consequence.System Requirements:Running Time: 128 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: PG UPC: 043396032996 Manufacturer No: 03299

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