Actors: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Mary Tamm
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Odessa File
Based on the Frederick Forsyth novel, THE ODESSA FILE is a movie directed by Ronald Neame in 1974.
Peter Miller, a German journalist, stumbles upon the diary of an old survivor of the Riga concentration camp and learns that the commanding officer of that camp -Eduard Roschmann- is still alive in Germany under a pseudonym. While trying to pinpoint Roschmann, Miller will have to face ODESSA, an organization of nazis who haven't given up the idea of ruling the world.
Helped by Simon Wiesenthal and Jewish secret agents, Miller tries to sneak into ODESSA but is soon the target of the ODESSA killers. Fortunately, Miller has the opportunity to steal a file which lists the new identities of all the ODESSA members. Now Miller is after Roschmann who has become a wealthy industrial.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of The Odessa File
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 10% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 70% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
The terrorist enemy is...
- racists/kkk/nazis
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- moving train
- castle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- unhappy
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Is this movie based on a
- book
