Odette

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)

Cast

Anna Neagle

Anna Neagle

as Odette

Trevor Howard

Trevor Howard

as Captain Peter Churchill

Marius Goring

Marius Goring

as Colonel Henri

Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

as Lt. Alex Rabinovich

Bernard Lee

Bernard Lee

as Jack

Maurice Buckmaster

Maurice Buckmaster

as Himself

Alfred Schieske

Alfred Schieske

as Camp Commandant

Gilles Quéant

Gilles Quéant

as Jacques (as Gilles Queant)

Marianne Walla

Marianne Walla

as S.S. Wardress

Fritz Wendhausen

Fritz Wendhausen

as Colonel (as F.R. Wendhousen)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Whilst not the paciest of WWII espionage stories, it is certainly one of the most considered - and by a clever use of subtle staging and lighting/sound manages to demonstrate the truly appalling nature of the Nazi treatment of the Allied intelligence gatherers/saboteurs and their brave French associ...

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