Debt is the 2010 British-American remake of the Israeli alternative historical thriller 2007 Ha-Hov , directed by John Madden from a screenplay by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. It stars Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, CiarÃÆ'¡n Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas and Jesper Christensen.
Although ready for release in July 2010, and scheduled for December 2010 release in the United States, the film only toured various film festivals during the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011. It did not see a general release until it was released in France on June 15th 2011, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia in July 2011, and the United States, Canada and India on August 31, 2011.
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Plot
The year was 1997 and Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren) was honored by her daughter Sarah (Romi Aboulafia) during the Tel Aviv release party for Sarah's book based on Rachel's account, Stefan and David gave the show in 1965. Simultaneously, David (CiarÃÆ'¡n Hinds) escorted from his apartment by an Israeli government agency for debriefing. David recognizes Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) waiting in another vehicle and can not face their lies, he commits suicide by stepping in front of an oncoming truck.
The film then flashbacked and it was 1965. A young Mossad agent Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain) on his first field assignment arrived in East Berlin to meet with more experienced agents David Peretz (Sam Worthington) and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas ). Their mission is to capture the Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen) - famous as "The Surgeon of Birkenau" for his medical experiments on Jews during World War II - and bring him to Israel to face justice.
Rachel and David present themselves as an ethnic German married couple from Argentina and Rachel planted herself as a patient at Vogel's gynecology and gynecology clinic.
Stefan reveals to Rachel that David lost his entire family in The Holocaust which seems to encourage his dedication to their mission but also made him hesitant to engage emotionally with him. Both Stefan and David were immediately attracted to Rachel. Rachel was attracted to David, but slept with Stefan shortly after David reluctantly refused his invitation. Rachel, as part of her protection, received fertility treatments at the clinic and her relationship with Rachel became pregnant.
At the appointment of his latest doctor, Rachel injected Vogel with a sedative during the examination and induced the nurse (Vogel's wife) to believe that she had suffered a heart attack. Stefan and David arrived dressed like paramedics and left with an unconscious Vogel in a fake ambulance, almost in front of a real ambulance team. Under the protection of the night, the trio attempted their excilation at Wollankstrasse Station, on a railway line along the border of the sector between East and West Berlin, and next to the mail depot. As they prepare to load Vogel onto the stop train, he suddenly wakes and honks the horn of the stolen van in which he is held, reminding the East German guards of their presence. In the ensuing shootout, David sacrificed his chance to escape to save Rachel who was compromised. The agents had no choice but to take Vogel to their apartment and plan a new extraction.
The agents took turns watching and feeding Vogel while leaving him chained to a wall heater. He tries to psychologically humiliate and intimidate them to the point that they must silence him. During his shift, David gets very angry after Vogel explains his belief that Jews have many weaknesses, such as selfishness, making them easily conquered. David smashed a glass plate over Vogel's head and repeatedly struck him, only to be stopped and restrained by Stefan. Then, Stefan and David go outside, leaving Rachel home to monitor Vogel himself. After successfully cutting his bonds by using broken pieces of plates, Vogel ambushed Rachel with a shard, leaving her with a permanent scar on her face. Wounded, he still managed to shoot the escaping doctor and see him crash to the ground after being hit. However, when they went to get rid of her body they found she had fled into the night and the remaining agents to assess their failure.
Panicked and hoping to save face for himself and Israel, Stefan convinces Rachel and David to follow the fiction that Vogel was killed. They agreed to lie and use the cover story that Rachel shot and killed Vogel when he tried to escape.
In subsequent years, agents became respected as national heroes for their role in the mission. During the 1970s party, at Rachel and Stefan's house (now married), Rachel confesses to David that she does not like her current life; Stefan put his career and social status in front of him while also punishing him for not loving him and having feelings for David. David acknowledged his intention to leave the Mossad and the country, begging Rachel to go with him. Rachel can not force herself to abandon her daughter (the result of the time Rachel and Stefan were together hiding in East Germany) and she and David split up.
At dinner after their daughter's launch party, Stefan took Rachel aside to arrange a meeting to discuss the new information he had gotten. Then, in David's flat, Stefan gives evidence that Vogel now lives in a mental hospital in Ukraine, and is soon scheduled to be interviewed by a local journalist.
David had investigated the man at the request of Stefan and, according to Stefan, committed suicide for fear of lying. Rachel denied Stefan's explanation, remembering a meeting with David the day before his suicide, in which he expressed his embarrassment about lies and revealed that he had spent years unsuccessfully searching the world for Vogel. She is increasingly disillusioned with Rachel's admission that she will continue to spread lies to protect her closest people, especially her daughter.
Nevertheless, in the direction of modern day Mossad, Rachel finally felt compelled to travel to Kiev to correct the mistakes made by the trio. He investigates journalists' footsteps and is able to identify and travel to a mental institution. She reaches the room just minutes before the reporter and discovers the man who claims to be Vogel is a cheater, a senile old man who seems to like fame. Explaining the encounter with Stefan over the phone, Rachel stated she would not continue to lie about the 1965 mission. She left a note for reporters and was preparing to leave, but suddenly saw the real Vogel (in her 80s now) among the patients others and follow him to remote areas of the hospital.
After a confrontation in which Vogel stabbed him twice with scissors, Rachel killed Vogel by jabbing a poison spray onto his back. When he was crippled from a mental hospital, Rachel's notes were found and read by journalists. It describes the truth of the mission, ready to be delivered to the world.
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Starring
- Helen Mirren as Rachel Singer in 1997
- Jessica Chastain as Rachel Singer in 1965 and 1970
- CiarÃÆ'¡n Hinds as David Peretz in 1997
- Sam Worthington as David Peretz in 1965 and 1970
- Tom Wilkinson as Stefan Gold in 1997
- Marton Csokas as Stefan Gold in 1965 and 1970
- Jesper Christensen as Dieter Vogel
- Romi Aboulafia as Sarah Gold, daughter of Stefan and Rachel
Production
The Israeli letters reported that Mirren "immersed himself" in Hebrew studies, Jewish history, and Holocaust writings, including the life of Simon Wiesenthal, while spending time in Israel in 2009 to record scenes in the film. "My character brings memory, anger and passion of the Holocaust," he said.
Release
The film premiered at the Deauville America Film Festival in France on September 4, 2010, followed by the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on September 14, 2010, and various other festivals during the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011.
The film was ready to be released in early July 2010, when the film was submitted to the British Film Classification Board, and Miramax initially announced plans to release it in the United States on December 29, 2010, and quickly began to appear on the list of possible Oscar contenders 2011. However, the film is one of two that has their official opening date pending until 2011 due to Miramax transfers from previous Disney owners and new owners of Filmyard.
The film saw its first public release in France on June 15, 2011, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia in July 2011, and the United States, Canada and India on August 31, 2011.
Critical reception
The film generally gets a positive response among critics and viewers. Aggregator reviews Rotten Tomatoes reports that 76% of the 158 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average critical score of 6.5 â € <â € The Debt is an intelligent entry, acting well in a genre that can use more things like that. " Metacritic, a review aggregator who gave a weighted average score of 100 reviews from major critics, gave the film a score of 65 based on 37 reviews. Victoria Alexander of Films in Review said the film, "the bend is shocking and fascinating.A high wire, intelligent spy thriller.This is one of the best movies of 2011."
Roger Ebert from Chicago Sun-Times starred 2 / 2 star from four. He said, "Perhaps the problem is the structure that cuts into the past Three characters, six actors, and although the woman is always Rachel, I sometimes ask myself which of the two men I see when younger In a thriller You have to be sure I think this movie will be more effective if the movie stays completely in the past, especially considering everything we know. "
The difference from the original movie
The 2010 film is based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name (known as Ha-Hov or HaChov in Hebrew). The differences between Israeli film and remake include:
- The main female character, Rachel Berner, was renamed from Rachel Singer; his fellow agents, Ehud and Zvi, named David and Stefan; and Nazi war criminal Max Rainer, his name was replaced by Dieter Vogel.
- The love triangle between Rachel and the other two agents is given a much larger focus in the remake.
- In the remake, Rachel marries and then divorces Stefan, while in the real Rachel has no special relationship with the man after the operation takes place.
- In the original film, the book on group exploits - whose release party was seen early in the film - was written by Rachel herself, while in remake was written by Rachel's daughter conceived with Stefan while on a mission in East Berlin.
- The remake has an expanded scene, not in the original, in which attempts to transport the kidnapped Vogel out of East Berlin failed.
- In the original film, Rachel traveled with Ehud to Ukraine, but had to complete the mission alone after she suffered from cowardice; in the remake, Rachel goes to Ukraine alone because David (Ehud) has committed suicide.
See also
- Debt (movie 2007)
References
External links
- Debt on IMDb
- Debt in the "Explore movie..." database of the British Film
- Debt in Figures
- Debt at Rotten Tomatoes
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