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Odette(Movie, 1950)

2h 4min | Genres: War, Drama, History
OdetteRating: 3.2/5 (with 99 votes)
Odette is a 1950 British war film based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French agent, Odette Sansom, living in England, 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. Anna Neagle plays Odette Sansom and Trevor Howard plays Peter Churchill, the British agent she mainly worked with and married after the war. Peter Ustinov plays their Jewish radio operator Alex Rabinovitch, Cr de Guerre, OBE, MiD. Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, who was head of the SOE's French Section, played himself in the film, as did Paddy Sproule, another FANY female SOE agent. ()
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About 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)

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: France
Based on the work of: Jerrard Tickell
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 4 languages: English (EN), French (FR), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/02/1950
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Screenwriter: Warren Chetham-Strode
Film Editor: Bill Lewthwaite
Director of Photography: Mutz Greenbaum
Composer: Anthony Collins
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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