The ODESSA File (1974)

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Trivia
Eduard Roschmann was a real-life wanted war criminal living in South America. He became even more wanted after the book and movie, and he turned up dead, rumored to have been killed by O.D.E.S.S.A. to stop the search for him that the media had begun.

Errores
Peter Miller infiltrates the Odessa organization by claiming to have been a member of the firing squad which executed Admiral Canaris at Flossenburg concentration camp in April 1945. Canaris was hanged on the gallows rather than shot for his role in the attempted coup against Hitler in July 1944. Franz Bayer who interviewed Miller and accepted his story would have known this and therefore deduced he was an imposter and didn't serve at Flossenburg as an SS guard. The error may have come from a misunderstanding of an ambiguous statement "...the bodies of Admiral Canaris and the other officers that we shot for their part in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler" in Frederick Forsyth's original novel.

Citas
Peter Miller: [SPOILER] Do you remember a man with the name of Tauber?
Eduard Roschmann: Who?
Peter Miller: Salomon Tauber. He was German and Jewish. One of your prisoners at Riga. Try to think, Roschmann.
Eduard Roschmann: I can't remember all the prisoners' names.
Peter Miller: He died in Hamburg last November. He gassed himself. Are you listening?
Eduard Roschmann: If I must.
Peter Miller: Yes, you must.
Eduard Roschmann: All right, I'm listening.
Peter Miller: He left behind a diary.
Eduard Roschmann: Is that why you came? Because of the diary of some old Jew? A dead man's diary is no evidence.
Peter Miller: There was a date in the diary I want to remind you of. Something that happened at Riga docks... on October 11,1944.
Eduard Roschmann: So what? The man struck me. He disobeyed my orders. I had the right to commandeer that ship.
Peter Miller: Was that the man you killed?
Eduard Roschmann: How should I know? It was 20 years ago.
Peter Miller: Was that the man?
Eduard Roschmann: All right! So that was the man. So what?
Peter Miller: That was my father!
Eduard Roschmann: Your father. So you didn't come about the Jews at all. I understand.
Peter Miller: No, you don't understand! What you and your kind did to all those people sickened the whole of mankind. But I'm here for my father.
Eduard Roschmann: How could you possibly know from that diary that man was your father?
Peter Miller: October 11, the same date, the same place. The Knights Cross with the oak leaf cluster, the highest award for bravery in the field. Given to very few of the rank of captain. The same rank, the same decoration, the same man!
Eduard Roschmann: I don't even remember. You're not going to kill me. You can't. You called me a butcher. Wouldn't killing me make you a butcher, too? What's the difference?

Créditos curiosos
Prologue: "This film is based on carefully documented research. There really was a secret society called Odessa, linking former members of Hitler's murderous SS, among them Roschmann, the 'butcher' of Riga Concentration Camp. Nasser did seek to perfect a strike force of 400 rockets to wipe Israel off the face of the map. His key scientists were mostly from Hitler's former rocket programme. For obvious reasons the names of some people and places have been changed.--Frederick Forsyth"

Versiones alternativas
West German TV version was edited to remove the text at the beginning (which provides background information) and flashback scenes of Roschmann's atrocities in the KZ.

Conexiones
Featured in I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal (2007)

Bandas sonoras
Christmas Dream
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Tim Rice (English) and André Heller (as Andre Heller) (German)
Sung by Perry Como

remarkable in many ways, including historical facts

This film is remarkable on many levels, but two stand out: 1) the realistic portrayal of the events in Riga, wherein thousands of Jews were massacred by the Nazis, and 2) the fact that the "butcher" of these events in the film was not a fictional ploy but an actual SS officer named, as in the film, Rosschmann. The latter point is of interest, since the film provoked a world wide hunt for this murderer, who was located in South America, and who then fled to Paraguay where he died in 1977. The first part of the film is near perfect, though it gets more melodramatic in the latter part, with a number of unconvincing dramatic events added. One example: the journalist(Voight)attacking the burly professional hit man sent to kill him, and then actually winning a hand to hand struggle with him.