History Film / WalkOnWater

* FoolishSoiblingResponsibleSibling: Before her fight with their parents, Pia was clearly the responsible one to Axel's foolish, at least in their parents eyes. After Pia fights with her parents, finds herself an Israeli boyfriend and goes to live in a Kibbutz in Israel - she is demoted.

Eyal is a {{Mossad}} hitman who targets enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and his chief Menachem decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: to find Alfred Himmelman, an aging Nazi war criminal, and get him "before God does". In order to track down the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends Himmelman's adult grandchildren, Axel and Pia.

!!''Walk on Water'' provides examples of the following:

'''''Walk on Water''''' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 [[UsefulNotes/{{Israel}} Israeli]] film. It is directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox and stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky. Most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German.

* TheAce: Eyal.
** BrokenAce
* AntiHero: Eyal, type III.

* BatmanColdOpen

* CombatPragmatist: Eyal.
* CunningLinguist: Eyal.
* DaChief: Menachem.

* DrivenToSuicide: Iris (Eyal's wife).

* HeCleansUpNicely: Seeing Axel in a suit [[HoYay has this effect on Eyal]].
** Earlier in the film he reacts this way to Pia dressing up, as well.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Eyal.

* NaziGrandpa: Alfred Himmelman.
** ArgentinaIsNaziland: He took refuge in UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} after the war.

* NoSenseOfHumor: Eyal.

* StepfordSmiler: The mother of Axel and Pia.
* StraightGay: Axel Himmelman.

* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter: Eyal and Pia are shown to be happily married with a child two years after the events of the film.]]

* InnocentBystander: The drag queens in the {{Berlin}} underground.

** ArgentinaIsNaziland: He took refuge in Argentinia after the war.

'''''Walk on Water''''' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 [[usefulNotes/{{Israel}} Israeli]] film. It is directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox and stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky. Most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German.

'''''Walk on Water''''' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 Israeli film. It is directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox and stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky. Most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German.

* WideEyedIdealist: Axel spends much of the film as the idealist to Eyal's [[TheCynic cynic]], but exposure to the harsh realities of life in conflict-ridden Israel does have an effect on him, and the knowledge of his family's DarkSecret and the presence of his grandfather in his house drive him to [[spoiler: kill the old man]].

* WideEyedIdealist: Axel spends much of the film as the idealist to Eyal's [[TheCynic cynic]], but exposure to the harsh realities of life in conflict-ridden Israel does have an effect on him, and considering that the knowledge of his family's DarkSecret and the presence of his grandfather in his house drive him to [[spoiler: kill him]].

** NaziNobleman

* WideEyedIdealist: Axel spends much of the film as the idealist to Eyal's [[TheCynic cynic]], but exposure to the harsh realities of life in conflict-ridden Israel does have an effect on him, and considering that the discovery of his family's DarkSecret drives him to [[spoiler: kill his own grandfather]]...

* TwoferTokenMinority: Two ethnic minority LGBTQ persons appear in the film - first Rafik, a gay Arab who hooks up with Axel at a bar, and later a black drag queen in Berlin.

''Walk on Water'' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 Israeli film. It is directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox and stars Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters. The screenplay was written by Gal Uchovsky. Most of the dialogue takes place in English, although there is much in Hebrew and German.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: It is ultimately Axel who carries out the killing of his grandfather on his own iniative, after Eyal spares the aged, sickly man's life]].

* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Eyal uses Hebrew to do this several times around Axel, and relates an anecdote about his old shoolmates who, on a student exchange to Germany, played a dark "game" by approaching random passers-by who were old enough to have been adults during WorldWarII, and asking them in Hebrew, "What were you doing when my family was being burnt?".

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Axel's father wants his son to join the FamilyBusiness, but Axel is happier working as a teacher, and it doesn't help that his father has been unaccepting of his son's sexuality.

* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Eyal uses Hebrew to do this several times around Axel, and relates an anecdote about his old shoolmates who, on a student exchange to Germany, played a dark "game" by approaching random passers-by who were old enough to have been adults during WorldWarII, and asking them in Hebrew, "What were you doing when my family was being burnt?"

Eyal is a {{Mossad}} agent. He is a hitman who targets enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and his chief Menachem decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: to find Alfred Himmelman, an aging Nazi war criminal, and get him "before God does". In order to track down the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends the Nazi's adult grandchildren, Axel and Pia.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Axel and Eyal, respectively.