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The Odessa File (1974) [PG]

Release Date:
October 17, 1974

Original Title:
The Odessa File

Alternate Titles:
Le dossier Odessa
O Dossiê de Odessa
Odessa ügyirat
The Odessa File
オデッサ・ファイル

Genres:
Thriller

Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
Domino Productions
John Woolf Productions
Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH

Production Countries:
Germany | United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: PG  IE: PG  NL: 12  US: PG 

Runtime: 130

Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Assistant Director:
Wieland Liebske

Assistant Editor:
Marcel Durham

Camera Operator:
Jimmy Turrell

Casting:
Renate Neuchl
Jenia Reissar

Co-Producer:
John R. Sloan

Conductor:
Anthony Bowles

Construction Coordinator:
Werner Achmann

Continuity:
Elaine Schreyeck

Costume Design:
Monika Bauert

Dialect Coach:
Osman Ragheb

Director:
Ronald Neame

Director of Photography:
Oswald Morris

Editor:
Ralph Kemplen

First Assistant Director:
Colin M. Brewer

Hairstylist:
Susi Krause

Location Manager:
Dieter Meyer
Leonhard Gmür
Dietmar Siegert

Makeup Artist:
Raimund Stangl

Novel:
Frederick Forsyth

Original Music Composer:
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Producer:
John Woolf

Production Designer:
Rolf Zehetbauer

Production Supervisor:
Pia Arnold

Screenplay:
Kenneth Ross
George Markstein

Script Editor:
John Rosenberg

Second Unit Director of Photography:
Atze Glanert

Sound Editor:
Leslie Hodgson

Sound Recordist:
Derek Ball
Gordon K. McCallum

Special Effects:
Richard Richtsfeld

Stunt Double:
Vic Armstrong

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Ille Sievers

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