Hannes Messemer

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).

The Great Escape -- In the role that made him a superstar, Steve McQueen leads an all star cast in this 'stunning' (The Film Daily) epic adventure about a group of Allied POWs that attempts one of the largest and most daring breakouts in history

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.

An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp 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.