Walk on Water
Eyal, a Mossad agent who is often tasked with assassinating Israeli enemies, has just returned home after a successful overseas mission in Istanbul to assassinate a well known terrorist to discover that his wife, Iris, committed suicide during his absence. Rather than send him off on another high risk, high profile mission, Menachem, Eyal's boss, instead assigns him to a job that Eyal sees more as make work, this assignment especially as Eyal has refused the mandatory sessions with a psychologist about his grief. Nazi war criminal Alfred Himmelman was known to have escaped to and living in Argentina since the war, but has just disappeared. What Mossad has known is that his now adult granddaughter, Pia Himmelman, has for the past several years lived on a kibbutz in Israel in having followed a former boyfriend there. Menachem also knows that Pia's brother, Berlin residing Axel Himmelman, is coming to Israel to visit his sister, who has contacted a travel agency to hire a tour guide for Axel, Eyal to be that tour guide. Menachem believes Pia and especially Axel as the one still having regular contact with their parents, who are thought to have known Alfred's comings and goings all these years, are the keys to locating and thus bringing Alfred to international court for justice. Eyal's own thoughts are that Alfred is probably dead, and if he's not time is not Alfred's friend in being old and thus will soon die on his own of old age. The problem for Eyal is that Pia and Axel may know nothing, including that their grandfather was a Nazi officer. In meeting the siblings and being able to bug Pia's apartment at the kibbutz, Eyal will discover that they both were told that their grandfather had died shortly after the war. While Eyal does form a bond of sorts with both siblings, he views the job with more disdain as, homophobic, he discovers that Axel is gay. But what may be the key to this mission is that Axel has come to bring Pia back home for their father's imminent seventieth birthday celebration, which if Alfred is still alive, may be too tempting an occasion for him to miss.
- Metascore65
- 2004
- 1 Hr 43 Mins
- Drama, Suspense
- R
Eyal, a Mossad agent who is often tasked with assassinating Israeli enemies, has just returned home after a successful overseas mission in Istanbul to assassinate a well known terrorist to discover that his wife, Iris, committed suicide during his absence. Rather than send him off on another high risk, high profile mission, Menachem, Eyal's boss, instead assigns him to a job that Eyal sees more as make work, this assignment especially as Eyal has refused the mandatory sessions with a psychologist about his grief. Nazi war criminal Alfred Himmelman was known to have escaped to and living in Argentina since the war, but has just disappeared. What Mossad has known is that his now adult granddaughter, Pia Himmelman, has for the past several years lived on a kibbutz in Israel in having followed a former boyfriend there. Menachem also knows that Pia's brother, Berlin residing Axel Himmelman, is coming to Israel to visit his sister, who has contacted a travel agency to hire a tour guide for Axel, Eyal to be that tour guide. Menachem believes Pia and especially Axel as the one still having regular contact with their parents, who are thought to have known Alfred's comings and goings all these years, are the keys to locating and thus bringing Alfred to international court for justice. Eyal's own thoughts are that Alfred is probably dead, and if he's not time is not Alfred's friend in being old and thus will soon die on his own of old age. The problem for Eyal is that Pia and Axel may know nothing, including that their grandfather was a Nazi officer. In meeting the siblings and being able to bug Pia's apartment at the kibbutz, Eyal will discover that they both were told that their grandfather had died shortly after the war. While Eyal does form a bond of sorts with both siblings, he views the job with more disdain as, homophobic, he discovers that Axel is gay. But what may be the key to this mission is that Axel has come to bring Pia back home for their father's imminent seventieth birthday celebration, which if Alfred is still alive, may be too tempting an occasion for him to miss.
