Walk on Water (Mossad and Nazi)

Walk on Water (Israel/2004)
directed by Eytan Fox.

Most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German. Its name derives in part from Jesus' walking on water.


Review The American Conservative

The entertaining Israeli comedy-drama "Walk on Water," in which a macho Mossad assassin must ingratiate himself with a gay German tourist to ferret out the whereabouts of the German's almost 100-year-old ex-Nazi grandfather and kill him, paradoxically calls to mind the remarkably small impact Israelis have on popular culture.

While the American media treat Nazi-hunting as a self-evidently essential task, the Mossad agent sees tracking a nonagenarian Nazi as a waste of time when he could be killing Arabs instead.

Finally, making the German a putative homosexual leeches the intended irony from the movie. The point of "Walk on Water" is supposed to be the Israeli's eventual realization that the German, despite being the grandson of a mass murderer, is a better human being than he is, who uses his ancestors' victimization to justify his homicides. But if the German really is gay, then the motivation for his kindness toward the madly attractive Mossad man appears less than pure-hearted. "Walk on Water" would have worked better as a straight odd couple buddy movie.

http://www.isteve.com/Film_Walk_on_Water.htm

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[88crizzly]

@Askimoula please tell us the name and the writer of the book. I searched in the internet, but couldn´t find anything about a book. I would love to read it

[IsItEarthYet]

How does he go back to the mansion and walk right in, at dawn? They don't have locks on their doors in Germany?

[Tiphainem]

@Askimoula There is a book ? What's the title and who wrote it ?

[Askimoula]

In the book he doesn't marry the German guy's sister, instead he and the German guy become lovers and go back to live in Israel. Great movie!

[desperatesoul1]

one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen! I don't even know what I would do, maybe report to police, but this is really horrible... I just cannot find right words. Anyways, a lot of things to think about!

[deusirae76]

The translation sucks ... the old nazi said "I'm happy to be there with my family again in my fatherland".

[christpf1]

Gewalt ist immer mies!!

[h2opolodan11]

good movie!

[banshee01111]

fuck mossad and nazi and israel