The feature film based on FREDERICK FORSYTH 'S novel starring
Jon Voight
Maximilian Schell who tells RADIO. TIMES:
On the November day in 1963 that President Kennedy is assassinated, an elderly Jew, Solomon Tauber , commits suicide in Hamburg. He leaves behind his diary of the horrifying events in the death camp at Riga - alleging that the Commandant and many other Nazis are alive and thriving in modern Germany. A young journalist, Peter Miller , finds the diary and realises that he has uncovered a story comparable with the devastating events in Dallas. He decides to find the Commandant and uncover the secrets of the Odessa organisation.
Screenplay by KENNETH ROSS , GEORGE MARKSTEIN Produced by JOHN WOOLF Directed by RONALD NEAME
(First showing on British television) Films: pages 16-17