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Film / 1974
Die Akte Odessa
Directed by
Ronald Neame
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Jon VoightPeter Miller
Maximilian SchellEduard Roschmann
Maria SchellFrau Miller
Mary TammSigi
Derek JacobiKlaus Wenzer
Peter JeffreyDavid Porath
Klaus LöwitschGustav Mackensen
Kurt MeiselAlfred Oster
Hannes MessemerGeneral Glücks
Garfield MorganIsraeli General
Shmuel RodenskySimon Wiesenthal
Ernst SchröderWerner Deilmann
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Günter StrackKunik
Noel WillmanFranz Bayer
Martin BrandtMarx
Hans CaninenbergDr. Ferdinand Schultz
Heinz EhrenfreundShapira
Alexander GollingColonel
Towje KleinerSalomon Tauber
Günter MeisnerGeneral Greifer
Gunnar MöllerKarl Braun
Elisabeth Neumann-ViertelFrau Wenzer
Christine WodetzkyGisela
Werner BruhnsHoffmann
Til KiweMedal Shop Proprietor
Georg MarischkaProsecution Attorney
Dietmar MuesWehrmacht Captain
Hans WyprächtigerLandlord
Cyril ShapsTauber's Voice (voice)
Alexander AllersonDr. Ratinger (uncredited)
Walter FeuchtenbergButler (uncredited)
Herbert FuxMakeup Man (uncredited)
Michael GahrOfficer (uncredited)
Wolfgang LukschySturmbannführer Kranz (uncredited)
Miriam MahlerEsther Tauber (uncredited)
Volker PrechtelGünther Kolb (uncredited)
Henning SchlüterLudwig Erhard (uncredited)
Oskar WernerWehrmacht Officer (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre ZolaLandlord (uncredited)
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