Walk on Water
by Eytan Fox
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Actor: Carola Regnier, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Knut Berger, Lior AshkenaziDirector: Eytan Fox
Brand: Sony
Writer: Knut Berger
Writer: Caroline Peters
Producer: Amir Feingold
Producer: Amir Harel
Producer: David Silber
Writer: Andreas Struck
Writer: Gal Uchovsky
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Walk on Water
Movie Review: The human side of a Mossad Kidon team member
Summary: 5 Stars
MOST movies don't move me but on June 23,2005 I saw 'Walk on Water' with my friend, the German Ambassador to Singapore, Andreas Michaelis. It was to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Israel and Germany's establishment of diplomatic relations.
I love this movie and Lior Ashkenazi's acting as Eyal the top Mossad assassin is simply outstanding. The story is simple. As the world knows (it is an open secret after all) Mossad selectively terminates the enemies of Israel, and the movie starts with a HAMAS terrorist leader terminated in front of his wife and son of about 7 years old. A chillingly professional potrayal where not one word is spoken in its cold blooded efficiency as the hero injects the Arab with lethal poison in Istanbul.
Eyal returns to find his wife dead of a drug overdose. Suicide...but no tears as he is 'knallharte'(brutal in German) and kalt (cold). His boss wants him to see the Mossad psychologist but he refuses with a classic line, "She saw one and had therapy for years and see what happens!" Eyal is so cold and seemingly unaffected by his wifes' suicide, he can even get all his 9mm pistol shots into his shooting qualification target in an area the size of a playing card (excellent group). There is a lot of "schwarz Humor" or black humour in this film. To try to calm him down, his boss assigns him to befriend a young German gentleman who has a sister in a Kibbutz in Israel. Why? The sickly Grandpa is a Nazi War Criminal who murdered most of the inhabitants of a whole region of Germany, including all the family of Eyal's boss, and all Eyal's family except for his mother.
Eyal feels the old Nazi hiding out in Argentina should be left to die as he is very sickly. "NO! We must get him before God does. That is Justice!" is the adamant sentiment of his boss. It is a personal Vendetta for him. Spymasters are human too. So off goes Eyal to befriend the German with his cover as a Tour Guide. At the Kibbutz, it doesn't take him long to 'bug' the German girl's apartment while brother and sister are learning an intricate Israeli folk dance.
As the investigation progresses the two men go swimming in the Sea of Galilee and the German tries to 'walk on water' with hilarious results. The two men form a good rapport very quickly, but later in a Tel Aviv nightclub, Eyal realises with shock and horror that the German man is a poofter (homosexual or 'schwul' in German). His sister tell the Mossad officer with a laugh that he even flaunts his homosexuality openly in Germany to annoy their parents. Eyal says with a deadpan expression, "Your brother is really friendly." It made me laugh a lot! The facial expression on Eyal's face when he realises his new German friend is 'schwul' is really well acted and very amusing. The German poofter's new boyfriend is the Arab bartender of the posh restaurant they dine in before going to the nightclub.
Just when it seems to be a wild goose chase, the audio surveillance which Eyal records on a CD with his laptop reveals that the German girl knows that their Grandpa is alive, and that their parent's have been maintaining him in South America all these years. Her discovery of their deceit in telling her that he was dead led her to go to Israel to live in the Kibbutz as a backlash. The Poofter returns to Berlin. The Mossad officer is ordered to follow. Eyal flies to Berlin, contacts the poof , eats that classic German street food of 'curry Wurst', and beats up a gang of Neo-Nazi skinheads with his 'Krav Maga' (self defence) skills to rescue the poof in a U-Bahn station. Eyal is one helluva guy and I say that without any irony. It all comes to a head at the 70th birthday party for the German poofs' father who is very wealthy.
Finally, the old Nazi with one foot in the grave appears in a wheelchair for his son's grand birthday bash in the big country mansion. Later, the Nazi dies, but who actually kills him?? I can't tell all, as it would spoil the suprise for you before you watch the movie. Just trust me when I tell you it has a very happy ending that involves an extremely adorable and cute baby. The acting is superb, the scenery is fabulous, the story is relevant to our troubled times. I really recommend you watch this movie. There are many lessons to be learnt from this movie, tolerance for one, forgiveness for another. The joyful ending brought tears to my eyes and it will touch you too, unless you are a stone cold Mossad assassin...but even assassins have feelings. By Dr. Michael Lim The Travelling Gourmet who is a renowned Travel , Food & Wine Writer/Editor in Asia.
Summary of Walk on Water
This enthralling award-winning film by internationally-acclaimed director Eytan Fox explores the motives, strengths, and, ultimately, the humanity of an Israeli assassin sent to rectify a wrong committed five decades earlier. Eyal is a top assassin in the Israeli secret service. He has killed terrorists before, but this time he is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi war criminal. During his mission, Eyal meets his target?s granddaughter and grandson, who inadvertently help him uncover his own troubled history and face his demons, while they discover the ugly truth their family has hidden from them for decades. What began as a straightforward mission, has suddenly escalated in intensity and complexity ? thrusting three very different people into a thrilling triangle of murder, friendship and fate.An unusual psychological spy thriller, Walk on Water follows Israeli agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi, from the superb romance Late Marriage) as he tries to learn from a German brother and sister (Knut Berger, Push and Pull, and Caroline Peters, Schone Frauen) whether or not their grandfather, a Nazi commander, is still alive--but his growing friendship with the pair forces him to grapple with his wife's suicide only months before. Walk on Water grapples with racial prejudice and homophobia without once seeming preachy; surprisingly, the spy storyline introduces these issues naturally, as Eyal's hostility towards Arabs and his blithe view of Nazi war criminals are central to his character. Ashkenazi is charismatic and subtle; his bedroom eyes and understated smolder make him something of an Israeli Clive Owen. Don't buy Walk on Water expecting James Bond spectacle, but the excellent performances, intelligent script, and quiet tension will draw you into this thoughtful and emotionally nuanced movie. In English, with a few subtitled scenes in Hebrew and German. --Bret Fetzer
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