The read
Scores higher than 72% of the 378 1970s thriller movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes69%
205 audience votes
Key crew
- Ronald NeameDirector
- George MarksteinScreenplay
- Kenneth RossScreenplay
- Andrew Lloyd WebberOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jon VoightPeter Miller
- Maximilian SchellEduard Roschmann
- Maria SchellFrau Miller
- Mary TammSigi
- Derek JacobiKlaus Wenzer
- Peter JeffreyDavid Porath
- Klaus LöwitschGustav Mackensen
- Kurt MeiselAlfred Oster
- Hannes MessemerGeneral Glücks
- Garfield MorganIsraeli General
- Shmuel RodenskySimon Wiesenthal
- Ernst SchröderWerner Deilmann
Stills
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Themes
suicideassassinbased on novel or booknaziespionagewar crimesmass murderconcentration campss (nazi schutzstaffel)investigationrevengeexecution
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