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This is a most taut and convincing film about a Mossad agent, Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) who is assigned to assassinate a former Nazi officer, now a very old man. Eyal is not keen because up until now he has been killing Palestinians, and very efficiently too. Mossad don't know where the old man is, but his granddaughter lives in an Israeli kibbutz and the grandson is coming to visit her and has asked the tourist agency for a guide to be provided. Eyal will have to be the guide.
By planting a bug he discovers that the old man is still alive and that a big family birthday party is planned in Germany. As Eyal takes the grandson, Axel, around, it emerges that Axel is gay and open about it. Eyal is rather private about matters to do with feelings and we wonder if his rejection of Axel's friendliness is some sort of denial. Anyway eventually Axel leaves for home, and tells Eyal to look him up if ever he comes to Berlin.
Eyal says that is pretty unlikely but his boss tells him to go, and he does so, meeting Axel immediately. As this is now a social, not merely a working, relationship, Axel takes him to a gay club; a girl clearing tables is obviously a transvestite.
They go on and in the U-Bahn (subway) they meet a gang of Axel's transvestite friends. They are Drag Queen #1, 2 and 3, played by Hubertus Regout, Biggy van Blond, Paysley Dalton. As they walk on they are attacked by skinheads and Eyal uses his professional skills, and his gun, to subdue them.
This was the most convincing action film I have seen for a long time; the fight with the skinheads, where Eyal subdues them more or less single handed was exceptionally well done.
HF August 2007
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