Frederick Forsyth

The Odessa File -- A German journalist attempts to track down Nazi war criminals in this top-notch suspense thriller starring Academy Award(r) winners Jon Voight (Best Actor, 1978, Coming Home) and Maximilian Schell (Best Actor, 1963, Judgement at Nuremberg).

Back in civilian life, an ex-mercenary soldier (Christopher Walken) accepts an offer by an American businessman to overthrow a small African government. Making plans to lead the coup, Walken visits the country in the guise of a nature photographer. Suspicious, the government throws Walken into prison and subjects him to torture. While in prison, he meets a dissident political leader. Finally free, Walken is deported. Back in the United States, Walken recruits his band of mercenaries and makes a raid on the military headquarters of the country's dictator and completes the coup. But not entirely: Walken has been moved by the dissident leader he met while imprisoned, and has a nasty surprise for his American businessman sponsor. From Frederick Forsyth's intense, best-selling novel.

The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg, Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller (Jon Voight). The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), commandant of the notorious wartime death camp at Riga, Latvia. Miller launches a personal manhunt to track down Roschmann, an investigation that leads him into the very heart of Odessa, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world. When Miller finds Roschmann, he learns that the former Nazi is now the leader of a weaponry complex of international, strategic consequence.

A relentless Soviet spy (Pierce Brosnan) smuggles parts for a nuclear bomb into England. His goal: detonate a device next to an American airbase, blame the Yanks and watch U.S.-British relations go up in a mushroom cloud. Only one man guesses what's going on: a canny British agent (Michael Caine) on the outs with his bosses. Two stars identified with screen spies who made the Cold War cool - Caine as the hero of the Harry Palmer series and Brosnan as 007 in four James Bond films - team for a riveting, unsettling East-West thriller based on a besteller by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File). In an era when nuclear terrorism is an all-too-real threat, The Fourth Protocol makes for compulsive viewing.