The Odessa File (1974)
 Directed by Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure) from a
story by Frederick Forsyth , The Odessa File takes us back
to Hamburg, Germany in 1963.
An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary that
falls into the hands of a freelance German journalist, 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
death-camp 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.
Filmed on location in Germany, The Odessa File examines
many of the key issues involved with the fall-out after the Second
World War . . . all with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (!).
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