The Odessa File

Hamburg, 1963, Jon Voight as reporter Miller, early in his pursuit of a Nazi war criminal involved in a plot against Israel, is the uninvited guest at a reunion of a (real) Waffen SS unit, Georg Marischka, and Günter Meisner as General Greifer, among the celebrants, in The Odessa File, 1974.

Jon Voight as (fictional) West German reporter Miller visiting Vienna, December, 1963 to see Shmuel Rodensky, playing the famous Jewish Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, discussing the (also real) Austrian SS war criminal Eduard Roschmann, in director Ronald Neame’s adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel The Odessa File, 1974.

Jon Voight as reporter Miller, with his girlfriend (Mary Tamm) in Hamburg, 1963, visiting his German mother (Maria Schell, only 12 years Voight's senior) as he considers investigating leads left by a now-deceased Holocaust survivor, Hans Wyprächtiger his landlord, in Ronald Neame's The Odessa File, 1974.

Following a prologue of a plot to destroy Israel, and Hamburg, November 22, 1963 established in the credits, Jon Voight, narrating, appears as German reporter Miller, attention diverted by the Kennedy assassination, pursuing a maybe-routine event, in the espionage thriller The Odessa File, 1974, from the Frederick Forsyth novel.

Jon Voight as German reporter Miller in Hamburg, 1963, reading the diary of German jew Tauber (Towje Kleiner) following his suicide, director Ronald Neame’s black & white scenes recreating the concentration camp at Riga, Latvia, dominated by Maximilian Schell as Nazi commandant Roschmann, in The Odessa File, 1974.

Jon Voight is a journalist who discovers a strange link between his family and a cabal of fugitive Nazis in The Odessa File, 1973, directed by Ronald Neame.