History Film / WalkOnWater

''Walk on Water'' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 [[IsraeliMedia Israeli]] film. It is directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox (who later directed ''Film/TheBubble'') and stars Creator/LiorAshkenazi, 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.

In order to find the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends Himmelman's adult grandchildren -- Axel, a gay social worker, and Pia, who decided to cut all ties with her family due to their support to her grandfather and went to Israel to work in a kibbutz as atonement for her family's past.

* NaziGrandpa: Alfred Himmelman. Menachem's mother was part of a group of Jewish people who were apparently killed under this guy's orders.

* SwitchToEnglish: Pia speaks some Hebrew, but her brother doesn't speak a word of it, and despite the fact that Eyal speaks perfect German, he hides this in order to spy on the Himmelmans and so for most of the film, the trio switch to English to communicate.

* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: The movies features two gay bars, one in Tel Aviv and one in Berlin.

In order to find the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends Himmelman's adult grandchildren -- Axel, a gay social worker, and Pia, who decided to cut all ties with her family due to their support to her grandfather and went to Israel to work in a kibbutz in order to exorcise her family's past.

* TheAtoner: Eyal, by the end of the film.

Eyal is a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent who eliminates enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and his chief Menachem decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: tracking the whereabouts of Alfred Himmelman, an aging Nazi war criminal, and get him "before God does".

* HiddenDepths: Eyal, who seems to be almost unfeeling, but revealed to be a BruiserWithASoftCenter with a FreudianExcuse.

* StraightGay: Axel Himmelman is portrayed as neither CampGay nor ManlyGay stereotypes.

Eyal is a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent who eliminates enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and his chief Menachem decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: tracking the whereabouts of Alfred Himmelman, an aging Nazi war criminal, and get him "before God does". In order to find the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends Himmelman's adult grandchildren -- Axel, a gay social worker, and Pia, who decided to cut all ties with her family due to their support to her grandfather and went to Israel to work in a kibbutz in order to exorcise her family's past.

Eyal is a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent who eliminates enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and his chief Menachem decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: tracking the whereabouts of Alfred Himmelman, an aging Nazi war criminal, and get him "before God does". In order to find the old man, Eyal poses as a tour guide and befriends Himmelman's adult grandchildren, Axel, a gay social worker, and Pia, who decided to cut all ties with her family due to their support to her grandfather and went to Israel to work in a kibbutz in order to exorcise her family's past.

Eyal is a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agent who eliminates 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'' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 [[IsraeliMedia Israeli]] film. It is directed by New York-born Israeli director Eytan Fox (who later directed ''Film/TheBubble'') 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.

Eyal is a UsefulNotes/{{Mossad}} agents who eliminates 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.

Eyal is a UsefulNotes/{{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.

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

* BadassIsraeli: Eyal is a realistic version of the trope.

* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Eyal uses Hebrew to do this several times around Axel, and relates an anecdote about his old schoolmates who, on a student exchange to Germany, played a dark "game" by approaching random passersby 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?".

* ArabIsraeliConflict: Takes place during the height of the Second Intifada in Israel, when suicide bombings were an almost daily occurrence. Eyal, an Israeli, and Rafik, a Palestinina, get into a dispute over it.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Discussed in the scene in the German gay bar.

* ArabIsraeliConflict: Takes place during the height of the Second Intifada in Israel, when suicide bombings were an almost daily occurrence.

* CulturalRebel: The Himmelman siblings. Axel is gay and is a social worker, which is doubly frustrating for his rich and bigot parents. Pia decided to learn Hebrew and work in Israel after discovering that her parents still kept contact with her NaziGrandpa, and refused to use the checks they sent to her on top of that.

* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Eyal uses Hebrew to do this several times around Axel, and relates an anecdote about his old schoolmates 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?".

* NaziHunter: Eyal is initially reluctant to become one and prefers to let the old nazi die, but Menachem insists on "punishing him before God does".

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* TitleDrop: When Eyal and Axel arrive at the Sea of Galilea, Axel tries to walk on a partially immersed deadwood branch. He trips in the water.

!!Trope on Water:

* HiddenDepths: Eyal, who seems to be almost unfeeling, but revealed to be a BruiserWithASoftCenter with a FruedianExcuse.
** Axel seems to be just a WideEyedIdealist, but he has surprising amounts of rage in him. [[spoiler: which eventually leads him to kill his own grandfather.]]

''Walk on Water'' (ללכת על המים, ''Lalekhet Al [=HaMayim=]'') is a 2004 [[IsraeliMedia 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.

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%%* AntiHero: Eyal, type III.

%%* StraightGay: Axel Himmelman.

%%* TheAce: Eyal.

%%* BatmanColdOpen

%%* CombatPragmatist: Eyal.
%%* CulturalRebel: The Himmelman siblings.
%%* CunningLinguist: Eyal.
%%* DaChief: Menachem.

%%* DrivenToSuicide: Iris (Eyal's wife).

* GayBarReveal: While it isn't likely that Eyal would have stuck around in any dance bar, when he realizes that he is in a gay bar he seems downright startled and pretty muhc runs away. And that's a man who can kill with his bare hands.
* GayAesop: Not the actual work, but more in-universe, showing the process that Eyal goes through learning to accept homosexuls.

%%* HeartbrokenBadass: Eyal.

* MatzoFever: Pia has a thing for tough, Israeli men.
%%* NaziGrandpa: Alfred Himmelman.
* NaziHunter: Eyal is initially reluctant and prefers to let the old nazi die but Menachem insists on punishing him before God does.
%%* NoSenseOfHumor: Eyal.

%%* StepfordSmiler: The mother of Axel and Pia.

* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: The movies features two gay bars - one in Tel Aviv and one in Berlin.

''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.