The Debt (2010)


In John Madden's remake of the 2007 Israeli film Ha-hov, Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain alternate in the role of Mossad secret agent Rachel Singer. The Debt carefully moves between 1966's East Berlin and Israel. Chastain, as young Rachel, tracks down and kidnaps the "Surgeon of Birkenau” Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. And in Israel in 1997, Mirren, a now-retired spy held in high praise by her country and lauded in her daughter's book chronicling the undercover operation, learns of a few surprising — and one heartbreaking — revelations that could tarnish her reputation as Nazi killer. Read the rest of the review here.