Treading Water& Israeli Film Walk On Water Manages to Stay Afloat

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The filmmakers set out to explore not only the current volatile prejudices between Jews and Arabs, but also the lingering resentment handed down from older Israeli generations against Nazi Germany. [Eyal]'s new assignment is to track down and kill an aging ex-Nazi, Alfred, for heinous war crimes committed more than 60 years ago. Uncovering his whereabouts involves Eyal befriending Alfred's grandson [Axel Himmelman], who comes to Israel to visit his sister [Pia Himmelman]. Knowing more of their family's secrets than her younger brother, Pia left Germany years ago for Israel and converted to Judaism. Axel's agenda for visiting Israel is to bring Pia home for their father's birthday, a sore subject for both, as she detached herself from their family for a reason.

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Treading Water& Israeli Film Walk On Water Manages to Stay Afloat

While weighed down by multiple themes of nationalism, sexual prejudice and racial discrimination with romantic underpinnings thrown in, Eytan Fox's latest directorial feat Walk on Water refus...

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