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词条 The Odessa File (film)
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. Reception

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2012}}{{Use British English|date=May 2012}}{{Infobox film
| name = The Odessa File
| image = Odessa_file_movieposter.jpg
| caption = Film poster by Bill Gold
Illustration by Howard Terpning
| director = Ronald Neame
| producer = John Woolf
| writer = Kenneth Ross
George Markstein
| based on = {{based on|The Odessa File
1972 novel|Frederick Forsyth}}
| starring = Jon Voight
Mary Tamm
Maximilian Schell
Maria Schell
| music = Andrew Lloyd Webber
| cinematography = Oswald Morris
| editing = Ralph Kemplen
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1974|10|18}}
| runtime = 128 min.
| country = United Kingdom
West Germany
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $6 million (North American rentals)[1]
}}

The Odessa File is an Anglo-German 1974 espionage thriller film, adaptation of the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth, about a reporter's investigation of a neo-Nazi political-industrial network in post-Second World War West Germany. The film stars Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell and was directed by Ronald Neame, with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It was the only film which the Schell siblings made together.

Plot

On 22 November 1963, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Peter Miller, a young freelance reporter in Hamburg, West Germany, pulls over to the curb to listen to a radio report of the event. As a result, he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway.

He follows the ambulance and discovers it is en route to pick up the body of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who had committed suicide, leaving behind no family. The reporter obtains the diary of the man, which contains information on his life in the Riga Ghetto during WW II, including the name of the SS officer who ran the camp, Eduard Roschmann.

Determined to hunt Roschmann down, Miller consults with Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal who informs him about ODESSA, a secret organisation for former members of the SS. With this information, Miller then dares to go undercover, using an assumed name and forged papers showing him as an SS veteran. He joins and infiltrates the ODESSA and finds Roschmann, who now runs a high-tech company which plans to send radio gyroscopes and biochemical warheads to Egypt to use against Israel.

Miller eventually finds Roschmann and confronts him at gunpoint, revealing that the diary included a passage about Roschmann murdering a fellow German officer during the war – the unique details of which confirm that it was Miller’s father. Miller intends to hand Roschmann to the authorities, but kills him when the Nazi shoots him. The detailed ODESSA files are used to arrest numerous Nazi war criminals, and Roschmann’s factory mysteriously burns to the ground before any rockets are delivered to Egypt.

Cast

  • Jon Voight as Peter Miller
  • Mary Tamm as Sigi
  • Maximilian Schell as Eduard Roschmann
  • Maria Schell as Frau Miller
  • Derek Jacobi as Klaus Wenzer
  • Peter Jeffrey as David Porath
  • Klaus Löwitsch as Gustav Mackensen
  • Kurt Meisel as Alfred Oster
  • Hannes Messemer as General Glücks
  • Garfield Morgan as Israeli General
  • Shmuel Rodensky as Simon Wiesenthal
  • Ernst Schröder as Werner Deilman
  • Günter Strack as Kunik
  • Noel Willman as Franz Bayer

Production

Filming was done on location in Hamburg, Germany; Salzburg, Austria; Heidelberg, Germany; Munich, Germany; at Pinewood Studios, England; and the Bavaria Filmstudios in Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany. It was filmed with Panavision equipment, produced with Eastmancolor technologies.

The film's title song, "Christmas Dream", is sung by Perry Como and the London Boy Singers.

Reception

Nora Sayre of the New York Times said, "The film makes its points methodically, almost academically. It also drags because there are many unnecessary transitional passages, devoted to moving the characters from one situation to another. Almost every occurrence is predictable."[2]

Groggy Dundee in Nothing is Written praised the actors, "Jon Voight does well, making Miller a credible and compelling protagonist. Maximilian Schell is excellent in what amounts to an extended cameo." However, he criticises the filmmakers for simplifying Forsyth's novel and dulling its anti-Nazi message.[3]

References

1. ^"All-time Film Rental Champs", Variety, 7 January 1976 p 46
2. ^{{cite news | first=Nora | last=Sayre | title=Neame's 'Odessa File': Thriller About Secret SS | date=19 October 1974 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B00E4D6143DE63BBC4152DFB667838F669EDE}}
3. ^{{cite news | first=Groggy | last=Dundee | title=The Odessa File | date=17 July 2010 | url=http://nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/2010/07/odessa-file.html}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0071935|The Odessa File}}
  • {{Allrovi movie|35961}}
  • {{tcmdb title|id=28046}}
  • {{AFI film|id=55280|title=The Odessa File}}
  • {{Rotten Tomatoes|1015389-odessa_file}}
  • {{worldcat|oclc=70689659}}
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