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J I A sff . -Vi. it M ' .VI 1 II Documentary F. urn: s ,4 , QUE HACER Directed by Saul Landau, Nina Serrano, Raul Ruiz 1972 Chiie 90 minutes Music by Country Joe McDonald QUE HACER. ..a political film about the different roads to revolution., .a faature film with a background of documentary. ..the reality of Chile, Allende s election victory, the CIA. ..with a fictional story about a Peace Corps girl, a murdered priest, and a political kidnapping, plus a short feature INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT ALLENDE j'j Directed by Saul Landau and Haskell Wexler November 5, 6 a 7 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursri fl Screenings at 3, 7 & 9 p.m. Admission $1.25 Sheldon Art Gallery 1 2th & 'R' St. H 'Odessa' file - ..complex intrigue "The Odessa File", set in Europe in late 1963, begins by telling the audience of an Egyptian plan to wipe Isreal off the map by launching a series of missies that would spread the bubonic plague. Pretty hefty stuff and it looked like yet another 'can-we-stop-this-catastrophe-in-time" blockbuster brought to you courtesy of director Ronald Neame, who also happened to direct the film that began the whole disaster movie cycle, "The Poseidon Adventure". We are told that the chemical warfare plan was actually in preparation by Nassar's Egypt back in the early 60s. Why it never happened would, we assume, make a fairly exciting movie story. But suddenly "the Odessa File" drops this plotline which, all things considered, is a pretty difficult thing .to do. greg lukow Instead, we move on to smaller and better things with Jon Voight, as a young, nosey West German journalist named Peter Miller, who comes across the diary of. an old Jewish man who had survived several years in a German . concentration camp. Seems the old man had committed suicide by gassing himself to death (probably the last method a Jewish concentration camp survivor would use to kill himself) and left the diary as a reminder of his prison experiences. His memoirs also mention the camp's commandant, an evil, former. SS officer named Roschmmann whom 4he old man claimed is syfl running free in Germany. - -"Confusing" plot line Voight, caught up with the old man's plea and a proper journalist's inquisitive enthusiasm, sets out to find Roschm mann. His journalism gives way to the spying business and ultimately his efforts lead him into uncovering a secret, underground group of former Na2i SS officers who call their move ment Odessa. He finds the names of all the members in a hidden book called the Odessa File (which, of course, is where the movie gets its name, even though it took nearly two hours of movie time to find it out) and turns it over to a well known Nazi war-criminal prosecutor. Nix ail the Odessa members, except for Roschmann, who Voight saves for his own vengeance. Oh, yes, we finally do get a brief explanation at film's end of why the bubonic plague plan didn't work, even though it's not wnat the movie was about. What all this goes to show is that Frederick Forsyth, who wrote "The Odessa File", can create very long and complex intrigue stories, but even though it's evident he's trying, he will never be Alistair McLean. But as a movie, "The Odessa File" is n't all that bad. It's an enjoyable and very watchable suspenser that ulti mately puts most of the pieces together after a snail's paced beginning and ail those confusing plot lines. Giving credit where credit is due, director Neame was never as much to blame for "The Poseidon Adventure" as was producer Irwin Allen, and with "The Odessa File", Neame shows he can avoid the right pitfalls. Paranoid feelings It's hard to establish exactly how much of "The Odessa File" is fact and how much is Forsyth's fiction. But by portraying continuing old guard Nazi infiltration in Germany in the 60s, the movie creates some of those same feelings of paranoid speculation that were found so skillfully earlier this year in "The Parallax View," and so horribly last year in "Executive Action." Voight, the screen's perennial baby face, is adequate in his role, even if it could have been done better by any one of a dozen actors who would be more believable in what turns into a secret agent role. But if Voight doesn't distinguish the part, at least his Aryan qualifications help him fit it. "The Odessa File" would have been a great TV..movio with the,, periodic crescendos of suspense coming at regular intervals.. As it is," it's a good theater movie and we can be apprecia tive of a best-seller adaptation that has finally spared us the run through of all that advance publicity bravura. The best thing in the film is the all too brief performance of Maximillian Schell as the aging Roschmann: He beautifully mixes the feelings of a character who was once a fearful spector of brutality but who is now a disillusioned old man trying to convince himseif that he was only following orders, it's an ironic role for Schell, who just over a decade ago won an Oscar for his performance as the thoughtful young defense lawyer in Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremburg". - 'Hacer': Chile before 1973 Showinq this week at the Sheldon Film Theatre as part of its Documentary Films Series are two films about the Republic of Chile before the bloody coup d'etat of September 1973, in which rightist elements of the Chilean army, reportedly aided by the American CIA, overthrew the socialistic government of Salvador Allende. "Que Hacer", directed by Saul Landau, Nina Serrano and Raul Ruiz, is fiction set against a semi-documentary background, In the tradition of "Z" and "The Battle of Algiers". While treating the fictional story of a Peace Corps girl, a murdered priest, and a political kidnaping, "Que Hacer" becomes an essay on different political roads that all lead to revolution. On the same bill is "Interview with President Allende", directed by noted American documen tarist Haskell Wexler in association with Saul Landau. Filmed soon after Allende'? ascendance to the Chilean presidency, the documentary assumes a special poignancy in the light of Allende's death by execution. The two films will be screened Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 3, 7 and 9 p.m. Admission i3 $1.25. The Fclgcr's Silver Collection will go on display Tuesday until Dec. 1 at the Sheldon Art Gallery. Folqer's Coffee collection of antique silver consists of English coffee pots and serving accessories from the 18th and 19th centuries and is considered one of the most complete collections of its kind in the world. The Faculty Brass Quintet will perform Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Kimball Recital Hail. november 4, 1974 page6 daily nebraskan