...He has an impressive list of novels to his credit "The Day of the Jackal ' was his first full length novel and an international best seller, which was also made into a very successful film with Edward Fox playing the lead..
Odessa File was his second novel..
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Originally released in 1974,The Odessa Fileis set in Hamburg a decade earlier. Its ... more
starting-point is the Nazi support network Odessa, and its involvement with Egyptian plans to destroy Israel. Peter Miller is a freelance journalist whose interest appea...
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starting-point is the Nazi support network Odessa, and its involvement with Egyptian plans to destroy Israel. Peter Miller is a freelance journalist whose interest appea...
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Set in 1963 Germany right after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy a young ... more
German freelance journalist finds himself in possession of a journal left by a concentration camp survivor who has committed suicide. From the diary the journalist...
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The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg, Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, ... more
leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller (Academy Award-Winner Jon Voight - Pearl Harbor, Mission Impossible). The diary d...
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Mafia-like organization called "Odessa" ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga. "of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and ultimately of brilliant ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution.
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Production Year: 1976 - Drama - Director: Herbert Wise - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, David Robb, Patrick Stewart, Fiona Walker
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Extrremely interesting and gripping Disadvantages: none
...his credit "The Day of the Jackal ' was his first full length novel and an international best seller, which was also made into a very successful film with Edward Fox playing the lead..
Odessa File was his second novel..
The Odessa File is set in West Germany in 1963, a period where many Germans just wanted to forget the past and move on, but pursuit of former SS members; particularly those involved in the Haulocast; ... ... It begins with the discovery of the dairy written by a Jewish Holocaust survivor who kept a meticulous account of the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps in Riga, and particularly about Commander Edmund Roschmann ' The butcher of Riga' who had shot a German Army captain, witnessed by Tauber, the jewish prisoner..Moved by what he had read, Miller decides to track Roschmann down and begins making inquiries into Roschmann's past and possible ... more
I confess that I am a great fan of Frederick Forsythe, and Odessa File is one of his best books among a long list of bestsellers..He has an impressive list of novels to his credit "The Day of the Jackal ' was his first full length novel and an international best seller, which was also made into a very successful film with Edward Fox playing the lead..
Odessa File was his second novel..
The Odessa File is set in West Germany in 1963, a period where many Germans just wanted to forget the past and move on, but pursuit of former SS members; particularly those involved in the Haulocast; was still active...
It is essentially the story of Peter Miller, played by John Voight, a German free lance crime reporter in Hamburg, Germany, who accidentally stumbles on to nazi classified information, that threatens his very existence, and a potential danger to anyone who comes across this information...
It begins with the discovery of the dairy written by a Jewish Holocaust survivor who kept a meticulous account of the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps in Riga, and particularly about Commander Edmund Roschmann ' The butcher of Riga' who had shot a German Army captain, witnessed by Tauber, the jewish prisoner..Moved by what he had read, Miller decides to track Roschmann down and begins making inquiries into Roschmann's past and possible present. Miller now bent on tracking down Roschmann , finds his various investigations leading him to Odessa ( A secret organization of the surviving nazis), and there after he and his girlfriend played by Mary Tamm become marked. He is hunted down by the enemy at every stage and he barely manages to keep himself alive...His hunt for the Odessa takes him to Argentina, where Roschmann has been living , as a prominent citizen looked up by the eminent citizens and respected by all Miller's investigations also attract the attention of Israeli Security, who see Miller as their chance to break the ODESSA open..
The story is fast paced and racy, keeps one interested throughout. The action sequences are well directed with a lot of suspense and it is a taut thriller that follows the book closely... John voight in the lead role has tried to do justice to his role , but he is not a very effective actor. He is ably supported by Maximillan schell in the role of Roschmann ... I would recommend this movie to any viewer fond of a good thriller, and this one is easily a good one if not one of the best..the action is nail biting. The movie was released in 1974 and went on to become highly successful like The Day of the Jackal which was another of Forsythe's novels to be filmed. The cast consists of Maximillan Schell playing the role of Roschmann and Mary Tam as Sigi, Peter's Girl friend.. In fact the movie was instrumental in exposing the Real life "Butcher of Riga' who was holed up in Argentina. He was caught and arrested, but he managed to escape to Paraguay with the help of his supporters, where he lived until his death in 1977...
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Actor(s): Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, Mary Tamm, Noel Willman
The tense true story of a newsman whose search for a Nazi murderer leads him to the discovery of a top secret Nazi organisation file named 'Odessa'... Based on the novel by Frederick Forsythe.
The tense true story of a newsman whose search for a Nazi murderer leads him to the discovery of a top secret Nazi organisation file named 'Odessa'... Based on the novel by Frederick Forsythe.
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