Movie
1974
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…
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In 1971, British journalist Frederick Forsyth scored spectacular success with *The Day of the Jackal*, a debut novel that introduced an effective mixture of extensively researched real events and thrilling fiction. The novel was adapted into an eponymous film in 1973, one of the best thrillers ever made. Forsyth’s second novel, *The Odessa File*, which used the same formula, was consequently adapted for the screen a…More
