Image Entertainment have revealed that they are preparing a Blu-ray release of Ronald Neame's
The Odessa File (1974), starring Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell. Exact technical specs, region coding status and supplemental features to be included on this release are unknown at the moment, but the preliminary release date set by the distributors is May 15th.
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 (Voight). The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Schell), 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. When Miller finds Roschmann, he learns that the former Nazi is now the leader of a weaponry complex of international, strategic consequence.