- Actors: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Carola Regnier
- Directors: Eytan Fox
- Writers: Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Andreas Struck, Gal Uchovsky
- Producers: Amir Feingold, Amir Harel, David Silber
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- DVD Release Date: 30 Aug 2005
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0009YVBGO
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,413 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is about finding a Nazi approximately 50 years after World War II in order to assassinate him. The Mossad agent, Eyal, just returned from Turkey and killed a terrorist there. His new assignment is to be a tour guide to a young German named Alex Himmelman, whose grandfather was the Nazi killer. The plan is to get friendly with this tourist and learn whether or not his grandfather is still alive, then "to do God's work before God is ready to take him" according to the Director of Mossad. The elder Himmellman is believed to be alive in Argentina where he escaped after the war. Unfortunately, when Eyal arrives home after the Turkish assignment, he finds his wife dead on their bed. She had committed suicide ... This life-altering event may affect his judgement and skills according to his superior. He is offered counseling but declines. His shooting abilities are tested on a target range from time to time, to ensure he is able to complete this important mission.
The film is fascinating on many levels. It delves into a deeply serious subject and questions the ethics of doing this type of work in a most creative and artistic manner. As Eyal becomes more friendly with Alex and his sister Pia who lives on a kibbutz, he begins to like them. Eyal places a bug in Pia's apartment to catch any conversation they may have about their grandfather's past. The conversations are all innocent until one night, when Alex tries to pursuade Pia to return to Berlin to visit her parents, to attend her father's birthday party. It turns out, Pia had a huge fight with her dad about the cover-up of what her grandfather had done during the war. One does wonder, why does the granddaughter of a Nazi end up working in a kibbutz in Israel? The film builds suspense and mystery based on this very question. The complex nature of the film makes it a superior viewing experience. The subject of the film is dealt with in a senstive manner and is balanced with humor. Eyal is played by a very handsome Israeli actor who befriends Alex and then learns by chance that Alex is gay. This subject is presented in a natural flow within the story line of the film ... The metaphor of "walking on water" as Jesus did on the Sea of Galilee is used with great affect and meaning. The viewer will be thrilled and entertained as intensity builds and the mysteries become more complex before they are resolved. There is a huge unexpected climax before the surprise ending brings about a 360 degree resolution to the conflicts. This is a most highly recommended viewing experience. Erika Borsos (pepper flower)
The film is fascinating on many levels. It delves into a deeply serious subject and questions the ethics of doing this type of work in a most creative and artistic manner. As Eyal becomes more friendly with Alex and his sister Pia who lives on a kibbutz, he begins to like them. Eyal places a bug in Pia's apartment to catch any conversation they may have about their grandfather's past. The conversations are all innocent until one night, when Alex tries to pursuade Pia to return to Berlin to visit her parents, to attend her father's birthday party. It turns out, Pia had a huge fight with her dad about the cover-up of what her grandfather had done during the war. One does wonder, why does the granddaughter of a Nazi end up working in a kibbutz in Israel? The film builds suspense and mystery based on this very question. The complex nature of the film makes it a superior viewing experience. The subject of the film is dealt with in a senstive manner and is balanced with humor. Eyal is played by a very handsome Israeli actor who befriends Alex and then learns by chance that Alex is gay. This subject is presented in a natural flow within the story line of the film ... The metaphor of "walking on water" as Jesus did on the Sea of Galilee is used with great affect and meaning. The viewer will be thrilled and entertained as intensity builds and the mysteries become more complex before they are resolved. There is a huge unexpected climax before the surprise ending brings about a 360 degree resolution to the conflicts. This is a most highly recommended viewing experience. Erika Borsos (pepper flower)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This fine Israeli film explores what happens when a Mossad agent and descendant of Holocaust victims is assigned as a tour guide to the grandson of a notorious Nazi war criminal with a mission to assassinate the old man.
First in Israel and then Berlin the Mossad agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) befriends the grandson Axel Himmelman (Knut Berger) and his sister Pia (Caroline Peters).
Both enlightening and fascinating the film brings face to face the Israeli agents complete indifference to the plight of the Palestinians, the persistent almost claustrophobic horror of suicide bombings, the looming shadow of the holocaust.
The dilemma of younger Germans is portrayed by the sister Pia who escapes the knowledge of her family's involvement in the holocaust by living in a Kibbutz, and the brother who ignores it until he is forced to confront Germany's Nazi past in conversations with Eyal.
There are only revelations and no answers in this very powerful film.
First in Israel and then Berlin the Mossad agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) befriends the grandson Axel Himmelman (Knut Berger) and his sister Pia (Caroline Peters).
Both enlightening and fascinating the film brings face to face the Israeli agents complete indifference to the plight of the Palestinians, the persistent almost claustrophobic horror of suicide bombings, the looming shadow of the holocaust.
The dilemma of younger Germans is portrayed by the sister Pia who escapes the knowledge of her family's involvement in the holocaust by living in a Kibbutz, and the brother who ignores it until he is forced to confront Germany's Nazi past in conversations with Eyal.
There are only revelations and no answers in this very powerful film.
Format:DVD
This is a good film that nearly goes all the way to tell both sides of the story, but does not. The ending reveals the banality of Israel's (Mossad's) policy.
Good to watch but not to be taken too seriously.
Good to watch but not to be taken too seriously.
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