The Debt is an absolutely impressive film. I had read very good critics about it, but I don't think they praised it enough. Maybe it's because it brings together many different elements that I pretty much like: the state of Israel, the Holocaust, Berlin, Revenge...
But above all this is a film about lying and fleeing. A past lie shapes the life of 3 (well, many more) Israeli who deal with it very differently. It's a justified lie, a lie I think I would have been happy to tell and would have no had problems to live with, but that's not the same for one of the characters, who has been unable to deal with it, being haunted with it for the ensuing 30 years of his ruined life. In the end, that allegedly buried dramatic event of the past is about to come back to life, casting its shadow over a fairly increased "public", and the 3 characters will try to come to terms with it following very different approaches.
These 30 years have been a continuous flight for our 3 characters, and also for the Nazi butcher. Now they'll have to decide whether to continue the flight or put a painful end to it. The same doubts they were confronted with in an old flat in Berlin 30 years ago will assault them now in Tel Aviv and in a Ukrainian hospital.
Not much more to add, just to remark how excellent the interpretations by both Jessica Chastain and Helen Mirren are. That's all, now just go and watch it!
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