| | |  | ISRAEL & JEWS | Home » » Walk on Water | | | | | | | Description: | | An experienced Mossad assassin is sent to eliminate an aging Nazi war criminal. During hsi mission, he makes an unusual discovery, uncovering his own past and forging a remarkable friendship. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Carola Regnier | | Director:
| Eytan Fox | | Format:
| AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| Arabic, English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Turkish | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 103 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 30, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
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67 of 69 found the following review helpful:
 A Tense, Powerful FilmOct 07, 2005
By H. F. Corbin
"Foster Corbin"
WALK ON WATER, directed by Eytan Fox, is as good a movie as you're likely to see. It is well directed, acted and photographed and has a great soundtrack including music by Bruce Springsteen, Buffalo Springfield and Gigliola Cinquetti. The linear plot is straight-forward and powerful. Eyal (Lior Ashkenzai), in the Israeli Secret Service, is in the business of killing terrorists. After the death of his wife, however, he gets a new assignment: to track down and take out an aging Nazi war criminal "before God does." The Nazi's gay grandson Axel (Knut Berger) will soon be visiting his sister Pia (Caroline Peters) who has left Berlin to live in a kibbutz in Israel. Eyal poses as an employee of "Horizon Tours Israel" in order to get close to the German brother and sister in an effort to find their grandfather.
Although all the actors give fine performances, the movie ultimately belongs to Ashkenzai with his swarthy good looks and moody blue eyes. It is fascinating to watch him grow from a methodical killer to someone else entirely. (I won't give away the plot here.) The director does not shy away from difficult questions: Why are Palestinians desperate enough to become suicide bombers? Is it always necessary to take vengence in your own hands? Are there circumstances when you should leave an old, sick criminal to heaven? Can you love the children (or grandchildren) of an enemy? Does killing breed more killing? Can straight men and gay men be friends?
The movie is ultimately about hope and forgiveness. The ending that takes place at the Sea of Galilee, which is all about the title of the movie, will take your breath away.
58 of 63 found the following review helpful:
"I don't think I'll ever go to Germany to visit"Apr 24, 2005
By M. J Leonard
"MikeonAlpha"
Director, Eytan Fox should be commended for making such brave, enlightening, and totally compelling film. Walk on Walker covers much intellectual and artistic ground and is easily the best film of the season so far. The film also features such a staggeringly real performance by sexy Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi that viewers will, without difficulty, remember it as the best for a lead actor in quite some time. Walk on Water, although brimming with cerebral ambition is mostly a meditation on vengeance and forgiveness taking on the hardened and tough heart of Israel, where the past and the present inevitably collide in a country that still wrestles with it's demons.
Eyal (Ashkenazi) is a Mossad special agent and assassin with a rough, sarcastic manner. The movie opens with him targeting a suspected Arab terrorist on a ferry in Istanbul. He manages to pull off the hit successfully, but then his supervisor (Gidon Shemer) sends him on an unusual assignment: He is to track down a Nazi war criminal in hiding, while posing as a tour guide to spy on the old man's adult grandchildren. The younger grandchild, Axel (Knut Berger) is in Israel to visit his big sister Pia (Caroline Peters). Pia is an idealistic German émigré who lives on a kibbutz and is in flight from the darker corners of her family history. Innocent, bourgeois, and liberal, Axel and Pia are appalled by the mistakes of their German past.
When Eyal first meets them, he's initially put on edge by their naïve, noninterventionist, and tolerant ways, but as he drives Axel around the historical sites of Israel, he begins to feel a strange affinity for the kindhearted, soft-spoken boy. Driven to find out the whereabouts of their grandfather, he plants a microphone in Pia's bedroom and eavesdrops on their conversations at night. But it's all to no avail; he learns nothing and dismisses them as "Hansel and Gretel arguing." By day, he drives Axel from the Sea of Galilee to the Wailing Wall, torn between strangling this Palestinian-loving peacenik and wanting to get to know him better.
Deep down Eyal is getting sick of the life of a revenge assassin, and when he returns to Tel Aviv to find his wife dead, from suicide, he becomes even more disillusioned with killing. He's also shocked to find himself inexplicably drawn to Axel and Pia in ways that he just can't quite fathom. When Eyal finds out the Axel is gay, and witnesses him flirting, and then later sleeping with Rafik (Yusef Sweid), a Palestinian Arab in a local gay bar, he initially withdraws. But a sudden and reluctant trip to Germany forces both men to reconsider their political and erotic allegiances. The ultimate climax is both riveting and horrifying as Eyal, finally confronts Axel's Nazi grandfather, and is forced to reconsider his life as an assassin.
Walk on Water does a fine job of presenting the lives of young, modern Jews and Germans, who are constantly forced to live under the shadows of the parents' wars. But the film also effectively breaks down the gay/straight stereotypes. In one scene, Eyal asks Axel what sex with another man is really like - it makes for one of the funniest and snappiest gay/straight dialogues ever seen on film. Eyal is a butch, truculent, masculine he-man, but he possesses a formidable intelligence that occasionally allows him to show his feminine and sensitive side. It's absolutely fascinating to watch him grow as he lets down some of his many defenses and is forced to reassess his entire worldview.
Possessed with a taught, intelligent script, and some fine performances by his leads, Fox has made a formidable movie - a substantial meditation on contemporary sexual, social, and emotional politics. Two disparate cultures initially collide, but ultimately find common ground, and while in doing so, also learn to forgive. Fox raises some difficult and poignant questions about this absolution, and whether the Holocaust can continue to be leveraged for moral certainty as it inevitably recedes and fades into history. Walk on Water is thrilling film that is full of astute cross-cultural observations, while also managing to possess an enormous and significant universal appeal. Mike Leonard April 05.
39 of 41 found the following review helpful:
Lives that Touch and ChangeNov 19, 2005
By Alejandra Vernon
"artist & illustrator"
Eyal is an assassin for the Israeli secret service, and is put on a mission to find an elderly Nazi known for his war crimes that has been in hiding, and suspected of still being alive. After the suicide of his wife, Eyal, a man who has never been able to cry, finds his life changing through the circumstances and people he meets on the mission. The award-winning "Walk on Water" is a tri-lingual film so brilliantly written and cast, that there is not a single scene that is not relevant, and it captures one's attention from start to finish.
Lior Ashkenazi is fantastic as Eyal, and Knut Berger gives a sensitive, terrific performance as Axel, the grandson of the old Nazi. Also good are Caroline Peters as his sister Pia, and Gideon Shemer as Menachem, Eyal's boss. Peters and Berger also had a hand in writing the marvelous script. Directed with perfect pacing by Eytan Fox, one also gets a cinematic tour of Israel, and parts of Berlin, which add to the interest of the film.
"Walk on Water" is a psychological drama, as well as a spy thriller, and touches on many facets of human life. Eyal, the man who "kills everything that comes near him," discovers life within himself, and comes to acceptance of himself and others, through Axel, his opposite in every way. In Hebrew, English, and German with subtitles, this film is worthy of one's time and stands up to many viewings, thanks to its taut, intelligent script and superb acting. Total running time is 103 minutes, and though the box says there is a "Making-of Featurette," my DVD does not include it on the menu.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
On my list of favorites...Nov 03, 2006
By Stephen P. Frakes
Walk on Water is now on my list of favorite movies. I have watched it several times and have enjoyed it every time. The actors are fantastic. They are totally believable and when you are through watching the movie, you feel as if you have made new friends.
I had not seen Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger nor Caroline Peters in any movie before, but because of this movie, I plan to search out and watch other movies of theirs. The director, Eytan Fox, was born in New York, but was 2 when his family immigrated to Israel. I will also have to check out other movies he directed, as he did a wonderful job in this movie.
The last part of this movie was totally unexpected. What happened in Germany and then back in Israel. I don't want to make this review a spoilier, so I won't say just what it was. But I will say this, the movie ended happily, which doesn't happen too often in a movie of this kind.
So anyone who is interested in German-Jewish relations will throughly enjoy this movie. Also anyone who enjoys surprises in a movie, will enjoy this movie. Plus it is a little bit of Israeli James Bond. And if you like a happy-feel good ending, this is the movie for you.
And for those of you who don't speak Hebrew or German, don't worry, most of the movie is in English and what isn't has subtitles.
18 of 20 found the following review helpful:
A fascinating film that works on many levels, but get the PAL versionSep 15, 2005
By Tom Trueman
"language scholar"
On August 30, the North American (NTSC) version was released, and the one I had pre-ordered was recently delivered. For the last two months, I'd had the PAL edition I had ordered directly from Israel. When I watched the NTSC version, I was able to compare the two editions.
First, the PAL edition really does have a better picture, because it has 20% more lines of resolution on the screen, but the NTSC picture looked pretty good. The NTSC edition has larger yellow subtitles (the PAL ones are a bit smaller and white), but the yellow subtitles looked a bit fuzzy around the edges on my large-screen TV, even though the rest of the picture was quite clear. The white subtitles looked a bit sharper.
On the Israeli edition, you have options of no subtitles, English subtitles, or Hebrew subtitles (which I found useful when some of the accented English was hard to understand). On the NA version, it's either English for everything (captioning), or just English when Hebrew or German were being spoken.
Now the bad part. The Israeli version just starts with a 30-second commercial, all in Hebrew, advertising a brand of TV and then goes right into the movie, with a much classier opening montage behind the menu. The NA version starts with a whopping EIGHT previews, unless you intercept them first, in which case it just goes through all its groan-inducing FBI warnings, and then several studio headers, and releasing info and such, before the movie finally starts.
But the WORST difference? The Israeli version is loaded with fascinating cast interviews, background information about the making of the movie, theatre trailers for the movie, a feature about all the excitement when it opened at the Berlin Film Festival, and a segment where a well-known Israeli TV interviewer does a promo for the film. Much of it is in Hebrew, but with English subtitles.
It turns out, for example, that Knut Berger really is gay. Caroline Peters' grandfather really was a Nazi (he was in the S.S., yet). Ernest Lenart, who plays the Nazi grandfather, is actually a German Jew who is himself a survivor of the Holocaust. Lior Ashkenazi, who plays toughguy Eyal has talked on live Israeli TV about having had an adult love affair with another man, like he does (implied) in this movie.
But you wouldn't know any of that if you'd only bought the NA edition -- because contrarily, the NA edition has NOTHING in the way of extras, probably to make room for all eight of those previews! The case mentions a "making of" feature, but it isn't listed anywhere on the menu. And believe me, I looked for it. Whose idea was THAT?
By the way, I notice that, in interviews, the director has been confirming what I said about the real relationship between the two men. It's almost comical to see people being miffed at the suggestion they were intimate, as if they can't grasp that a macho guy could also be attracted to a man.
Personally, I think the director and his gay spouse of 17 years (who wrote the screenplay), planned it as a clever "in-joke" just to see who of the non-gay audience would "get it". From the looks of it, it looks like not many did....
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