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Le dossier Odessa

Original title: The ODESSA File
  • 1974
  • Tous publics
  • 2h 10m
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Jon Voight and Mary Tamm in Le dossier Odessa (1974)
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Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp d... Read allFollowing the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.

  • Director
    • Ronald Neame
  • Writers
    • Frederick Forsyth
    • Kenneth Ross
    • George Markstein
  • Stars
    • Jon Voight
    • Maximilian Schell
    • Maria Schell
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    • Director
      • Ronald Neame
    • Writers
      • Frederick Forsyth
      • Kenneth Ross
      • George Markstein
    • Stars
      • Jon Voight
      • Maximilian Schell
      • Maria Schell
    • 86User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
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    Jon Voight
    Jon Voight
    • Peter Miller
    Maximilian Schell
    Maximilian Schell
    • Eduard Roschmann
    Maria Schell
    Maria Schell
    • Frau Miller
    Mary Tamm
    Mary Tamm
    • Sigi
    Derek Jacobi
    Derek Jacobi
    • Klaus Wenzer
    Peter Jeffrey
    Peter Jeffrey
    • David Porath
    Klaus Löwitsch
    Klaus Löwitsch
    • Gustav Mackensen
    Kurt Meisel
    Kurt Meisel
    • Alfred Oster
    Hannes Messemer
    Hannes Messemer
    • General Glücks
    Garfield Morgan
    Garfield Morgan
    • Israeli General
    Shmuel Rodensky
    Shmuel Rodensky
    • Simon Wiesenthal
    • (as Schmuel Rodensky)
    Ernst Schröder
    • Werner Deilman
    Günter Strack
    Günter Strack
    • Kunik
    • (as Gunter Strack)
    Noel Willman
    Noel Willman
    • Franz Bayer
    Martin Brandt
    • Marx
    Hans Caninenberg
    Hans Caninenberg
    • Dr. Ferdinand Schultz
    Heinz Ehrenfreund
    • Shapira
    Alexander Golling
    Alexander Golling
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    • Director
      • Ronald Neame
    • Writers
      • Frederick Forsyth
      • Kenneth Ross
      • George Markstein
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    10phd_travel

    Terrific story and cast - a classic

    This thriller should go down as a classic. It has a convincing story a rare thing in movies that try to blend historical fact and fiction. It's tense from beginning to end and doesn't have annoying red herrings or plot twists.

    The casting is perfect. Maximillian Schell is ideal as the Nazi war criminal. Jon Voight is surprisingly convincing as a German accent and all. Good use of European supporting cast to avoid a fake feel.

    Good on location feel to it. Liked the evocative score too.

    It's one of the best thrillers about WWII subject matter even though it is set after the war.
    7secretron

    effective thriller

    Just a sad reminder of how gripping thrillers were a dime-a-dozen in the 70's, as compared to the suspense-bankrupt modern day. 2 hours of entertainment & not one single explosion!! Jon Voigt once again establishes himself as one of the best actors of the decade in his principal role as the tenacious journalist bent on revenge. The film & its subject matter could have easily been more confusing, and tho some scenes defy logic (a supposedly lethal hit man is reduced to dunderhead status in the film's pivotal fight scene), the story steams ahead fluidly til the climactic denoument. This is Voigt's movie, but the supporting cast is effective in small roles, especially Maximillian Schell in his few scenes & Mary Tamm, as Voigt's along-for-the-ride girlfriend who also happens to be very easy on the eyes. And look, there's Derek Jacobi, long before he met Kenneth Branagh, in a tiny, yet pivotal role! Forge, Derek, forge!! Not as good as "The Conversation" but infinitely better than any movie starring Sharon Stone or Steven Seagal (or both). 7 out of 10.
    9hedgehog-10

    Excellent climax to the film.

    Although it deviates from the excellent book's plot, The Odessa File is, in my opinion, Jon Voight's best performance. A good script is handled very well by the actors. Like all Frederick Forsyth's books, the film conveys the possibility that all the events in the film were completely accurate to real events. The ending of the film, when we find out the reason for Jon Voight's character tracking down the former Nazi, is a superb moment of suspense.
    8pamsfriend

    Marred only by one thing

    Sometime between 1979 and today, filmmakers have lost the ability to tell a suspenseful story, to flesh out characters, so that today we see more style than substance, more gore and mayhem than plot development.

    The Day of the Jackal, Marathon Man, Eye of the Needle, The Boys From Brazil and others will be labeled boring by many here because they must wait for something to happen. A typical example from Odessa is the reunion scene. Voight infiltrates the meeting of old German soldiers, make that old devoted Nazis, gathering in a beer hall. He snaps a photo of the speaker, shouting what sounds like the words of the pre-war Deutschland uber Alles. One man comes and begins his eviction from the hall. In the next scene we see him nursing his wounds, which are far more serious than the pushes we see. Tell me that today we would not witness a brutal beating punch by punch, kick by kick.

    Films then used violence to advance the plot, such as the "Is it safe?" interrogation in Marathon Man. Seventies films are no shorter than today's masterpieces, but so much more intricate plot is compressed into their time frame.

    Three Days of the Jackal is a perfect telling of a Forsyth book; we never become involved with the characters but watch in fascination. Here we follow Miller (Voight) giving us a horse in the race. I have reservations about the final confrontation with Schell and Miller's motivations but I have none about the story in general.

    Only in the score does Odessa fall short; the music sounds almost if it was added as an afterthought and does nothing to enhance moods or foreshadow scenes. Worse, the score seems the beginning of a pattern that continues to this day where in some scenes the music is the main character. Only the bier-hall singing of the old Nazis sounds appropriate.

    I rated the film 8 of 10.
    9headmaster-1

    Nasty Nazis are just beneath the surface

    A great story, which combines twisted plots, chase scenes and the deadly combination of history and the present. One is utterly compelled to wonder exactly how fictional this story is, and also how such an organisation could operate beneath the veneer of respectability. There is no doubt that the motives of all the chief characters are distinct, and the plot forces one to watch as Muller tries to break into the seemingly impenetrable organisation. His journey to find the answers he is looking for, and all due to stopping on the side of the road for a couple of minutes to listen to the radio makes one also wonder what else is out there that should be revealed, but due to cover ups and apathy hasn't been!

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    • Trivia
      Eduard Roschmann was a real-life wanted war criminal living in South America. He became even more wanted after the book and movie, and he turned up dead, rumored to have been killed by O.D.E.S.S.A. to stop the search for him that the media had begun.
    • Goofs
      Peter Miller infiltrates the Odessa organization by claiming to have been a member of the firing squad which executed Admiral Canaris at Flossenburg concentration camp in April 1945. Canaris was hanged on the gallows rather than shot for his role in the attempted coup against Hitler in July 1944. Franz Bayer who interviewed Miller and accepted his story would have known this and therefore deduced he was an imposter and didn't serve at Flossenburg as an SS guard. The error may have come from a misunderstanding of an ambiguous statement "...the bodies of Admiral Canaris and the other officers that we shot for their part in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler" in Frederick Forsyth's original novel.
    • Quotes

      Peter Miller: [SPOILER] Do you remember a man with the name of Tauber?

      Eduard Roschmann: Who?

      Peter Miller: Salomon Tauber. He was German and Jewish. One of your prisoners at Riga. Try to think, Roschmann.

      Eduard Roschmann: I can't remember all the prisoners' names.

      Peter Miller: He died in Hamburg last November. He gassed himself. Are you listening?

      Eduard Roschmann: If I must.

      Peter Miller: Yes, you must.

      Eduard Roschmann: All right, I'm listening.

      Peter Miller: He left behind a diary.

      Eduard Roschmann: Is that why you came? Because of the diary of some old Jew? A dead man's diary is no evidence.

      Peter Miller: There was a date in the diary I want to remind you of. Something that happened at Riga docks... on October 11,1944.

      Eduard Roschmann: So what? The man struck me. He disobeyed my orders. I had the right to commandeer that ship.

      Peter Miller: Was that the man you killed?

      Eduard Roschmann: How should I know? It was 20 years ago.

      Peter Miller: Was that the man?

      Eduard Roschmann: All right! So that was the man. So what?

      Peter Miller: That was my father!

      Eduard Roschmann: Your father. So you didn't come about the Jews at all. I understand.

      Peter Miller: No, you don't understand! What you and your kind did to all those people sickened the whole of mankind. But I'm here for my father.

      Eduard Roschmann: How could you possibly know from that diary that man was your father?

      Peter Miller: October 11, the same date, the same place. The Knights Cross with the oak leaf cluster, the highest award for bravery in the field. Given to very few of the rank of captain. The same rank, the same decoration, the same man!

      Eduard Roschmann: I don't even remember. You're not going to kill me. You can't. You called me a butcher. Wouldn't killing me make you a butcher, too? What's the difference?

    • Crazy credits
      Prologue:  "This film is based on carefully documented research. There really was a secret society called Odessa, linking former members of Hitler's murderous SS, among them Roschmann, the 'butcher' of Riga Concentration Camp.  Nasser did seek to perfect a strike force of 400 rockets to wipe Israel off the face of the map. His key scientists were mostly from Hitler's former rocket programme. For obvious reasons the names of some people and places have been changed.--Frederick Forsyth"
    • Alternate versions
      West German TV version was edited to remove the text at the beginning (which provides background information) and flashback scenes of Roschmann's atrocities in the KZ.
    • Connections
      Featured in Je ne vous ai pas oubliés (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Christmas Dream
      Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber

      Lyrics by Tim Rice (English) and André Heller (as Andre Heller) (German)

      Sung by Perry Como

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    • Release date
      • January 22, 1975 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • West Germany
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • El archivo de ODESSA
    • Filming locations
      • Anif Castle, Anif, Salzburg, Austria
    • Production companies
      • John Woolf Productions
      • Domino Productions
      • Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,113,301
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 10 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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