Jon Voight one of the most underrated actors in the history of motion pictures!! Traveling some of the same streets in Germany while teaching in Europe was a moving experience for me as a young man.
Reading my father's copy of the Odessa File about 40 years ago was my first exposure to the Holocaust. I still have it, read so many times it's pages are falling out. A masterpiece.
I also have a book and read it 3 or 4 times. My first exposure came from my father telling me about his whole family being murdered while he was in POW camp
My great aunt was a holocaust denier until we watched this movie together. This started to open her mind to the fact that her countrymen had perpetrated crimes against humanity.
While enjoyable, the main point of the movie summary was missed, and that was that the officer killed by Rochman (as related in the diary), was Peter's Father, a real German War Hero, whilst Roschman was a Nazi thug.
I just noticed that this was the movie highlights...quite a few bits were cut which were important to the whole plot, best watch the full version methinks!
Can you kindly suggest where can l find the book.Excellent movie with a very brave man.So Germany still has their network in higher authorities.Shameful,it seems that still this day Hitlers's followers are around of course some more f them are dead but their generation still exit.
I remember reading the novel on paperback many years ago. It was riveting. A newspaper critic who was one of the critics commenting on back cover of the novel, wrote: " Could this be fiction?"
I saw the movie in REX Cinema hall in Bangalore. I remember the seen when Peter Miller was called in the night for a photo. It is nearly a 10 minutes scene before the fight starts. There was no back ground music and the cinema hall maintained pin drop silence. Suddenly some body dropped a key chain. The whole hall laughed. Such was the power of the movie. Dialogues were well written, especially last scene between Miller & Roshmann. Simply fabulous.
Odessa Files had an amazing effect on me, it got me studying every aspect of the war, collecting 2500 films, both Hollywood, British, German and otherwise feature films and documentaries as well as 1000+ books. Had I seen the film when it came out it would have the most expensive movie ticket ever. For WWII followers like myself, get yourself a copy of “World at War” a 7 DVD set made in 1972 while so many of the players were still alive.
Thankyou. I understand the cuts, well done. This novel got me reading again when I was 14. I read a few forsyth books after that. I got up to the 4th Protocol then he got silly, hehe.
Remarkable sleeper of a movie: director Ronald Neame had a tricky time filming it in Hamburg less than 3 decades after WW11 - some of the cast and crew had fought in Nazi uniform (Hannes Messemer who played sinister SS General Glucks in the movie was a real war hero who had escaped from the Soviets and walked all the way back to Germany ), but there were ex SS also among the crew and extras. The movie also helped to bring about the downfall of the REAL Edouard Roschmann, deputy commandant (not commandant as in the movie) of Riga Concentration Camp. The film`s suggestion that Roschmann might have killed a highly decorated Wermacht officer took root among SS expats in South America who refused to help him any longer. He died in mysterious circumstances within a couple of years of the movie`s release.
Interesting. But Wikipdia says: "Roschmann died in Asuncion, Paraguay on 8 August 1977.[3] The body initially went unclaimed, and questions were raised as to whether the dead man was, in fact, Roschmann.[44] The body bore papers in the name of "Federico Wegener", a known Roschmann alias, and was missing two toes on one foot and three on the other, consistent with Roschmann's known war injuries.[44] Emilio Wolf, a delicatessen owner in Asuncion who had been a prisoner under Roschmann, positively identified the body as Roschmann's. Simon Wiesenthal, however, was sceptical of the identification, claiming that man matching Roschmann's description had been spotted in Bolivia only one month earlier. "I wonder who died for him?" he said."
Frederick Forsyth wrote about the death of the killer in his autobiography, The Hidden Life. He also explained how he chose a real character and name, which eventually resulted in the capture. The SS guy died of a heartattack on the boat in Paraguay, according to Forsyth.
this is cool. a few weeks ago i found a readers digest condensed book on my dads old shelf and i just started reading the odessa files. pretty coo to see that theres a movie on it
Ottimo giallo politico,con attori bravi e credibili, bravo John Vohit nel ruolo di Peter Miller, credibile ed efficace nella recitazione Maximilian Schell ne ruolo dell'ex capitano delle SS Eduard Roshmann, molto fedele nella trama la sceneggiatura al romanzo di Frederic Forshite
What't the song they are all singing in this movie in that party where Peter is beaten up for taking photos? Anybody knows? th-cam.com/video/idRGcEFzntk/w-d-xo.html
I saw the whole movie, and the reason he killed SS Capt. Roschmann was because he killed his father, who was another SS Officer with higher rank to take over the camp.
+Humberto Flores In the book, his father wasnt an SS but a condecorated Wehrmacht officer who was killed by Roschmann during his escape of the front when the russians was arriving to Konigsberg.
Humberto Flores his father was in the german army not the SS and he shot him because strucks him because his father refused to unload a ship full of wounded german soldiers so that the SS could escape. :)
Disappointing flick if the highlights are anything to go by. For one thing, the film doesn't reveal Miller's real reason for hunting down Roschmann - viz, Roschmann killed his father, a Wehrmacht pilot. Then, Tauber wanted kaddish to be said in the land of Israel - in the book, Miller would have been killed had it not been for the Israeli agent who breaks into Roschmann's residence, who later says kaddish in Israel according to Tauber's wishes. Also, after Miller's cover is blown, the Odessa plan to assassinate him by rigging a bomb on his Jaguar - a bomb that doesn't get detonated because of a minor engineering detail of British cars. The Day of The Jackal was a much better movie adaptation.
47:10 and next minute: A revolver with a silencer ? I always thought that was rather an impossibility, certainly in the 1960's ? Anyway, the whole idea of getting the infiltrator after midnight out of bed to make pictures is of course one of the weak points in the plot. I like Forsythe very much, but even he sometimes made odd movements to get to a tight scenario. I don't understand why Kolb says he led the firing squad of Canaris, wasn't the latter hanged bare on a piano string ? The end is also a little bit too hoorah-ish. Did ex Roschmann had no family who opposed the release of the killer, wasn't Mengele included in the Odessa file etc. A somewhat more open end like in the Quiller memorandum might have been more effective. Clearly not of the same calibre as his Day of the Jackal.
Silencers were common before the 60's. The night scene is to create tension and haste, it isn't unrealistic at all. The book regularly references hundreds of individuals in the file, it can't reference every one and there's no need to anyway.
Hard to imagine Jon Voigt as a leftist reporter out to set the world right, when today he's a hard-core, Fox News watching Trumpanzee. Now he's closer to the men IN Odessa than to the valiant reporter hunting them!
I'm not impressed by this film. A gross simplification of the underlying book with poor execution: Dull dialogue, partly lousy acting (a remarkable feat as there were many famous or to-be-famous German actors in it), lots of goofs like film locations that don't match with the narrative and car models built way after 1963.
Jon Voight one of the most underrated actors in the history of motion pictures!! Traveling some of the same streets in Germany while teaching in Europe was a moving experience for me as a young man.
I concur my good sir..one of his best performances was midnight cowboy..
Well said.
I agree 100%.
Take Care.
think he is really good in this film
He became a right-wing arsehole
absolutely right what an incredible actor i had no idea because hollywood never talks about him you are very right
Reading my father's copy of the Odessa File about 40 years ago was my first exposure to the Holocaust. I still have it, read so many times it's pages are falling out. A masterpiece.
I also have a book and read it 3 or 4 times. My first exposure came from my father telling me about his whole family being murdered while he was in POW camp
@@BytomGirlYour photo and name are of a young person and yet your father must be around 100 if still alive. Utter nonsense.
All the best people a simply brilliant film that will remain a classic forever.
It should have included the dialogue between Miller and Rouschmann as it explains why Miller is so determined to get him.
Exactly, my point above.
notice any classic films worth watching on youtube you have to pay for....this film is nearly 50 years old you shouldn't have to pay for it
Watch the full movie, you would not need dialogue or a reason to do what he did.
My great aunt was a holocaust denier until we watched this movie together. This started to open her mind to the fact that her countrymen had perpetrated crimes against humanity.
Probably just got tired of fighting
@@xys7536 Fighting the truth
She cannot have been unaware of the facts why would a work of fiction change her mind.
@@garymitchell5899 The truth finally hit her in the face.
We need more movies similar to these ones
De las mejores acerca del tema ❤❤❤
This movie came in Sangeet India I didn't my parents saw this and now I get to see every time My Favorite Movie
While enjoyable, the main point of the movie summary was missed, and that was that the officer killed by Rochman (as related in the diary), was Peter's Father, a real German War Hero, whilst Roschman was a Nazi thug.
Ein wirklich packender Film mit hervorragender Besetzung.
I just noticed that this was the movie highlights...quite a few bits were cut which were important to the whole plot, best watch the full version methinks!
Where can l find the full movie,l would highly appreciate
read the book before the movie came out. still one of the best.
I have the book and read it many times. Amazing book
Can you kindly suggest where can l find the book.Excellent movie with a very brave man.So Germany still has their network in higher authorities.Shameful,it seems that still this day Hitlers's followers are around of course some more f them are dead but their generation still exit.
I remember reading the novel on paperback many years ago. It was riveting. A newspaper critic who was one of the critics commenting on back cover of the novel, wrote: " Could this be fiction?"
I was 13 or 14 when i first read the book. Howled and howled whilst reading Tauber's diary. But an unputdownable book. The movie too was very good.
I saw the movie in REX Cinema hall in Bangalore. I remember the seen when Peter Miller was called in the night for a photo. It is nearly a 10 minutes scene before the fight starts. There was no back ground music and the cinema hall maintained pin drop silence. Suddenly some body dropped a key chain. The whole hall laughed. Such was the power of the movie. Dialogues were well written, especially last scene between Miller & Roshmann. Simply fabulous.
Yes. The confrontation scene in which Miller cuts the Butcher of Riga to size.
Odessa Files had an amazing effect on me, it got me studying every aspect of the war, collecting 2500 films, both Hollywood, British, German and otherwise feature films and documentaries as well as 1000+ books. Had I seen the film when it came out it would have the most expensive movie ticket ever. For WWII followers like myself, get yourself a copy of “World at War” a 7 DVD set made in 1972 while so many of the players were still alive.
TOP 2 WWAR TRUE FULL MOVIES
Bobby Paluga you should watch Russian war movies to get the full picture
You bought those items anyway (if we accept your story is true) so seeing the film would have made no difference.
I absolutely agree with you 100 percent
Comment section needs to stop been so critical about the cuts. Let’s just be great-full for what is uploaded
The cuts removed some important thing crucial to the action of the film.
thanks, it was great watching this again!!
RIP Maximillian Schell
GriefTourist Indeed and what a cool character of an actor he was. Is there a missing part towards the end of the movie?
Sereana Duwai yeah, the entire final act is not here
Thankyou. I understand the cuts, well done. This novel got me reading again when I was 14. I read a few forsyth books after that. I got up to the 4th Protocol then he got silly, hehe.
Remarkable sleeper of a movie: director Ronald Neame had a tricky time filming it in Hamburg less than 3 decades after WW11 - some of the cast and crew had fought in Nazi uniform (Hannes Messemer who played sinister SS General Glucks in the movie was a real war hero who had escaped from the Soviets and walked all the way back to Germany ), but there were ex SS also among the crew and extras. The movie also helped to bring about the downfall of the REAL Edouard Roschmann, deputy commandant (not commandant as in the movie) of Riga Concentration Camp. The film`s suggestion that Roschmann might have killed a highly decorated Wermacht officer took root among SS expats in South America who refused to help him any longer. He died in mysterious circumstances within a couple of years of the movie`s release.
Interesting. But Wikipdia says:
"Roschmann died in Asuncion, Paraguay on 8 August 1977.[3] The body initially went unclaimed, and questions were raised as to whether the dead man was, in fact, Roschmann.[44] The body bore papers in the name of "Federico Wegener", a known Roschmann alias, and was missing two toes on one foot and three on the other, consistent with Roschmann's known war injuries.[44] Emilio Wolf, a delicatessen owner in Asuncion who had been a prisoner under Roschmann, positively identified the body as Roschmann's. Simon Wiesenthal, however, was sceptical of the identification, claiming that man matching Roschmann's description had been spotted in Bolivia only one month earlier. "I wonder who died for him?" he said."
Frederick Forsyth wrote about the death of the killer in his autobiography, The Hidden Life. He also explained how he chose a real character and name, which eventually resulted in the capture. The SS guy died of a heartattack on the boat in Paraguay, according to Forsyth.
A classic in my view
this is cool. a few weeks ago i found a readers digest condensed book on my dads old shelf and i just started reading the odessa files. pretty coo to see that theres a movie on it
Excellent movie
Brilliant movie. Brilliant Jon Voigt.
Great film. Remember watching it at the Sena Mall Cinema, Metairie, Louisiana, on Thanksgiving night 1974.
+Michael Kleiman long time ago
cinematreasures.org/theaters/44413/photos/92900
Much thanks. Saved time. And money. On an otherwise boring and rainy day. Cheers!
What's the martial piece of music the band play as the general is introduced?
My favourite movie. ❤❤❤
Great book.
Two important things were omitted, the nuclear bomb they were building and what happened to Miller's father which was the biggest surprise.
He was killed by Edward Roshchman as shown in the past life
It's in the film and Muller identifies him before killing Roschman.
Peter Miller was sent on a mission that Solomon couldn't do. Justice was done here. What a courage spirit.
What's the name of the song they sing during the reunion? (the one with the ha-ha-ha chorus)
16:00 the beer hall scene is the best part of the movie for me.
wow, important stuff......
Thank u for not breaking the suspense
Was that a genuine Beer Hall song or especially written for the film?
Film soundtrack
Exelente pelicula
Ottimo giallo politico,con attori bravi e credibili, bravo John Vohit nel ruolo di Peter Miller, credibile ed efficace nella recitazione Maximilian Schell ne ruolo dell'ex capitano delle SS Eduard Roshmann, molto fedele nella trama la sceneggiatura al romanzo di Frederic Forshite
The film was ruined by this cut down version. Fantastic film, not this version unfortunately. Totally missed the point.
Leí el libro en versión español. No entiendo nada de ingles o alemán pero, viendo las escenas, difieren bastante del libro.
underrated he won an oscar
for portrayal
as street hustler Joe buck and he's always getting work
film molto bello
Admiral Canaris was hanged - not shot by a firing squad as John Voight's character states
What't the song they are all singing in this movie in that party where Peter is beaten up for taking photos? Anybody knows? th-cam.com/video/idRGcEFzntk/w-d-xo.html
Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss...would he have known the words and where from?
Quanta maldade o ser humano é capaz de praticar contra os outros.....
@18:20 which place is that to be precise, can we track this location in google maps.
Karlsplatz (Stachus) in Munich
Dublado em português?
el protagonista se ve como en la vida real está. Increíble. Y una película de los años 70. Super igual a como está el ahora el padre de Angelina Jolie
I just read the book!
good movie...
What is the music wich is played in the very end of the movie called?
Anyone know where you can watch it online?
TH-cam - for $3.99.
Shouldn’t the car be a Jaguar
Not the full film the start is misslng
what is the song played at the start
Christmas Dream by Perry Como
Perry Como singing Christmas Dream
Ja symbolic Baghuni Dipamani Buli asibu Cuttack nishamani
Missing footage!
Dahhh... it's highlights, not the whole movie
Ide love to see it al,anybody can help?
SOOO MANY GREAT FILMS,.,.,,,,CANT BE FOUBD,..YOU TUBE HAS MANY BUT NETFLIX IS LIMITED........ETC
TH-cam - for $3.99.
I saw the whole movie, and the reason he killed SS Capt. Roschmann was because he killed his father, who was another SS Officer with higher rank to take over the camp.
+Humberto Flores In the book, his father wasnt an SS but a condecorated Wehrmacht officer who was killed by Roschmann during his escape of the front when the russians was arriving to Konigsberg.
Humberto Flores his father was in the german army not the SS and he shot him because strucks him because his father refused to unload a ship full of wounded german soldiers so that the SS could escape. :)
No, his father was an ordinary officer in the German army, not in the monstrous SS...fact.
@@felipeantonioramirezsanche5140 Ws
@@felipeantonioramirezsanche5140 Neither the book nor the film claim he was SS.
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Mary Tam a very spooked up girlfriend for Jon Voight and a good companion for our Doctor Who.
In italiano
16:00
Funny (Bierzeltatmosphäre)
Funny ????
Money, Money, Money. England Awake.
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Disappointing flick if the highlights are anything to go by. For one thing, the film doesn't reveal Miller's real reason for hunting down Roschmann - viz, Roschmann killed his father, a Wehrmacht pilot. Then, Tauber wanted kaddish to be said in the land of Israel - in the book, Miller would have been killed had it not been for the Israeli agent who breaks into Roschmann's residence, who later says kaddish in Israel according to Tauber's wishes. Also, after Miller's cover is blown, the Odessa plan to assassinate him by rigging a bomb on his Jaguar - a bomb that doesn't get detonated because of a minor engineering detail of British cars. The Day of The Jackal was a much better movie adaptation.
curious420 At the end, Miller's real motivation is revealed.
Fyi, this is not the entire fiom. Its less than half of it. In the full-length fil, everything you say was missing or not addressed is revealed.
this is a great film - you are a mental case
You are stupid not to understand the story. Go watch the film again and again.
47:10 and next minute: A revolver with a silencer ? I always thought that was rather an impossibility, certainly in the 1960's ? Anyway, the whole idea of getting the infiltrator after midnight out of bed to make pictures is of course one of the weak points in the plot. I like Forsythe very much, but even he sometimes made odd movements to get to a tight scenario. I don't understand why Kolb says he led the firing squad of Canaris, wasn't the latter hanged bare on a piano string ?
The end is also a little bit too hoorah-ish. Did ex Roschmann had no family who opposed the release of the killer, wasn't Mengele included in the Odessa file etc. A somewhat more open end like in the Quiller memorandum might have been more effective. Clearly not of the same calibre as his Day of the Jackal.
Benoit Vanhees >The Germans used silencers in WWII
Silencers were common before the 60's. The night scene is to create tension and haste, it isn't unrealistic at all. The book regularly references hundreds of individuals in the file, it can't reference every one and there's no need to anyway.
16:49
Kolossal
Movie is a poor shadow of the book
The book is a poor shadow of the film.
A 90 minute film can't reflect everything. It's a common issue. I think it does well within that limitation.
Podiam legendar em português esses clássicos. Dislike por isso
Warum sprechen die Deutschen nicht deutsch?
Because it's not a German movie.
@@jerribee1 But its unreal to speak english
Hard to imagine Jon Voigt as a leftist reporter out to set the world right, when today he's a hard-core, Fox News watching Trumpanzee. Now he's closer to the men IN Odessa than to the valiant reporter hunting them!
The leftists back in those days weren't anti-white.
Get real
J propaganda.
Give it up, your evil boys lost. You should join them.
I'm not impressed by this film.
A gross simplification of the underlying book with poor execution:
Dull dialogue, partly lousy acting (a remarkable feat as there were many famous or to-be-famous German actors in it), lots of goofs like film locations that don't match with the narrative and car models built way after 1963.
I highly recommend reading the book. You will enjoy it more than this movie
Details like car models and even locations, unless critical, don't fundamentally spoil the central story.
@@garymitchell5899
It just sadly adds to the poor acting, hence the "poor execution".
Jon Voight is a terrible actor like some dull child
What is the song at the beginning called?
CHRISTMASS DREAM by PERRY COMO, GREAT SONG, ps the E.TYPE JAGUAR IS BEAUTIFUL.
good movie..