The Odessa file
By: Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay, Kenneth Ross and George Markstein ; produced by John Woolf ; directed by Ronald Neame
Contributors: Voight, Jon, 1938-; Tamm, Mary; Schell, Maximilian; Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-; Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Culver City, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Drama; Investigative reporting; Journalists; Nazi hunters; Ex-Nazis; Concentration camp commandants; War criminals
Description: In 1963, in Hamburg, Germany, a diary falls into the hands of freelance newspaperman Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller's personal manhunt to track down Roschmann leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

Based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth.

Special features include: production notes, talent files, theatrical trailers.

Director of photography, Oswald Morriss ; editor, Ralph Kemplen ; music, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Jon Voight, Mary Tamm, Maria Schell, Maximilian Schell, Derek Jacobi.

MPAA rating: PG; Canadian Home Video rating: PG.

DVD ; Dolby digital ; full screen 1.33:1 aspect ; Region 1 ; stereo.

Sound track in English; optional subtitles in English and Spanish ; closed-captioned.