---
title: 'The Odessa File (1974)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ronald Neame'
released: '1974-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 130
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-odessa-file-1974'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071935/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Odessa File (1974)

1974 · PG · 130 min · Drama · Germany, United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

The Odessa File is a 1974 thriller film, adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, about a reporter's investigation into the ODESSA: an organisation set up to protect former members of the SS 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 that the Schell siblings made together.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ronald Neame](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-neame)
- **Screenplay:** [Frederick Forsyth](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-forsyth)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Andrew Lloyd Webber](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-lloyd-webber)
- **Producer:** [John and James Woolf](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-and-james-woolf)
- **Director of Photography:** [Oswald Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/oswald-morris)
- **Editor:** [Ralph Kemplen](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-kemplen)

## Cast

- [Maria Schell](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-schell)
- [Garfield Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/garfield-morgan)
- [Dietmar Mues](https://cinepixo.com/people/dietmar-mues)
- [Jon Voight](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-voight)
- [Ernst Schröder](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernst-schroder)
- [Derek Jacobi](https://cinepixo.com/people/derek-jacobi)
- [Alexander Golling](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-golling)
- [Henning Schlüter](https://cinepixo.com/people/henning-schluter)
- [Heinz Ehrenfreund](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-ehrenfreund)
- [Martin Brandt](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-brandt)
- [Georg Marischka](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-marischka)
- [Hans Wyprächtiger](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-wyprachtiger)
- [Hans Caninenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-caninenberg)
- [Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisabeth-neumann-viertel)
- [Til Kiwe](https://cinepixo.com/people/til-kiwe)

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