Miller pursues the story and visits the State Attorney General's office and other offices where he learns that no one is prepared to search for or prosecute former Nazis. . Jon Voight was on-set throughout the production, with the script calling for his being on-camera in eighty percent of the scenes. August 1938 in Ashford , Kent , England ist ein britischer Schriftsteller. And I never need to hear that goddamned Perry Como song as long as I live.
Miller is soon found out by those who run the organization, but he manages to locate Roschman nonetheless. Miller becomes quite interested in the camp's commander, Eduard Roschmann, who he learns vanished after the end of the war. After the film was released to the public, he was arrested by the Argentinian police, skipped bail, and fled to , where he died on 10 August 1977. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the during , including the name of the officer who ran the camp,. As a result, he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway. Eventually Miller confronts Roschmann at gunpoint and forces him to read from Tauber's diary.
To add to the verisimilitude of the movie, the world's leading authority on Nazi war criminals, Simon Wiesenthal, was a Special Advisor to the producers on the facts behind the suspenseful story. The flashbacks were alright but anyone who can't deal with a slow buildup will probably just get frustrated with this movie. Most of the character actors and actresses were major movie and theatre personalities of the German stage and screen. The film stars , , and and was directed by , with a score by. Maximilian Schell is excellent in what amounts to an extended cameo.
Genre: , Stars: , , , , , , , Director: Ronald Neame Country: , Rating: 7. Israeli intelligence is also keen on infiltrating O. Rather, Miller directs him to the passage describing Roschmann's murder of the Army Captain, revealed to have been Erwin Miller, Miller's father. One memorable incident was when a couple of the younger crew members streaked through the throng. Instead of killing him, however, Miller handcuffs Roschmann to the fireplace and says he plans to have him arrested and prosecuted. Producer John Woolf and Director Ronald Neame were convinced that this movie must be made in Germany in order to achieve the authenticity and atmosphere of the source Frederick Forsyth novel. It was filmed with equipment, produced with technologies.
The lightening bolts which represent S. While Miller is recovering in hospital, he is told what happened while he was unconscious. It was the only film that the Schell siblings made together. Der fiktive Thriller von Regisseur Ronald Neame stellt eine Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Romans. All of Roschmann's arrogance and bravado deserts him, and he is reduced to begging for his life.
Not only did Jon Voight and Mary Tamm have to learn to use the accent, but had to do it with North German dialect nuances because of their characters' Hamburg origins in the story. Roschmann manages to escape, eventually flying to. Miller escapes one trap by sheer luck: the hitman later installs a bomb in Miller's car, but the car's stiff suspension prevents it from going off. Even the studio settings were filled with real props, and the designs of Rolf Zehetbauer were carried out in real wood, brick, and steel. The secret organization has infiltrated all levels of German society and will apparently stop at nothing to protect its members. The supporting cast was mostly German. It also drags because there are many unnecessary transitional passages, devoted to moving the characters from one situation to another.
The hitman who has been sent to kill Miller is instead killed by an Israeli agent, 'Josef'. The next day, Miller is given the dead man's diary by a friend in the police. Credit to Jon Voight for a decent accent, even if his acting was downright hammy sometimes. The Odessa File was somewhat dull but eventually paid off. Synopsis After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former S. Josef warns him not to tell anyone the story.
One example of a problem surmounted happened in Hamburg, Germany when the scene representing the Riga Docks called for a heavy layer of snow. The diary deals with Tauber's incarceration at the Riga concentration camp. However, it is intended to be S. Gruppenführer Richard Glücks, former S. He has taken Tauber's diary with him and per the last request in the diary, Uri visits and says for the soul of Salomon Tauber.
It was directed by with a score by. Almost every occurrence is predictable. The English-speaking players were given special coaching by Dialogue Director Osman Ragheb to acquire German accents which would be identical to those of the native actors and actresses. Die Akte Odessa ist ein britisch - deutscher Film aus dem Jahr 1974. He follows the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The set photographer was so surprised he forgot to photograph the event. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the S.
Because of the long work week, it became habit for the crew to unwind by having a company party on-set each Saturday night with either the cast or production personnel sponsoring it. The bodyguard drives to the village in Miller's car to telephone for help, but is killed when he drives over a snow-covered pole, an impact hard enough to trigger the bomb. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the S. What wasn't well-known at the time, was there was a real, functioning O. Miller is caught off guard when Roschmann's bodyguard returns to the house, disarms him and knocks him unconscious. Die Ostukraine ist die östliche der vier Großregionen der Ukraine. Other than a four-day detour to a location near Salzburg, Austria, where an Austrian castle was used as the palatial home of the character played by Maximilian Schell, all of the interior and exterior scenes were filmed at the studio, or in the area of Munich.