The Odessa File – 1974

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

Rolled as Issued

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Size: 28 x 22 inches (71 x 56 cm)

An original US Half-Sheet poster for the 1974 release of “The Odessa File”, the poster is in excellent condition with minimal edge and general handling wear.

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 film that the Schell siblings made together.

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so, he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called ODESSA – “Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen," which translates from German to English as "Organisation of Former Members of the SS"

“I bear no hatred nor bitterness towards the German people. People are not evil. Only individuals are evil.”

Tags: 1970s American Half Sheet British Spy Drama Thriller Action Adventure War