The Odessa File is a movie directed by Ronald Neame in 1974 and based on the book of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1972. The movie features Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey, and others.
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Storyline
On 22 November 1963, Peter Miller, a young freelance reporter in Hamburg, West Germany, follows an 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 World War II, including the name of the SS officer who ran the camp, Eduard Roschmann.
Movie vs Book
Year
1974
Minutes
130
Movie Rate
7.00
Source: IMDb
Year
1972
Pages
334
Book Rate
8.24
S: Goodreads
Book
The Odessa File
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Country: UK
First published in: 1972
Length: 334 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“Some people see it as this success when the book is finally made into a movie - that marks its success. I don't see it that way.”
ROBIN HOBB (Writer)
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