Walk on Water (2004)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal.

7.4/10
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65 Metascore

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Cast & Crew

Top Billed Cast

Lior Ashkenazi

Eyal
Knut Berger

Axel Himmelman
Caroline Peters

Pia Himmelman
Gideon Shemer

Menachem

(as Gidon Shemer)
Carola Regnier

Axel's Mother
Hanns Zischler

Axel's Father
Ernest Lenart

Alfred Himmelman
Eyal Rozales

Jello
Yousef 'Joe' Sweid

Rafik
Imad Jabarin

Rafik's uncle
Sivan Sasson

Weapons Instructor
Natali Shilman

Iris

(as Natali Szylman)
Hugo Yarden

Kibbuz Director
Joshua Simon

Kibbuz Singer
Tom Rahav

Kibbuz Singer

Director:

Eytan Fox

Writer:

Gal Uchovsky (screenplay)

Awards

4 wins & 10 nominations.

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Caroline Peters, who plays Pia, revealed in an interview on Israeli television that her actual grandfather was a Nazi, just like her character's grandfather in the film

Eyal: Bravo. You did it.
Axel Himmelman: You don't understand. You can't just come to the Sea of Galilee and start walking on water. If you could, everybody would be doing it. You need to prepare yourself.
Eyal: And how would you do that? Please enlighten me.
Axel Himmelman: Well, you need to...

Goofs

When Eyal visits Menachem's Berlin hotel, a shot down its hall reveals that all the rooms have Mezuzot on the doorframes. At the door to Menachem's room, the only room without a Mezuzah, there is a clearly visible unpainted patch from which the Mezuzah had been removed just for that shot. A Mezuzah is a small box filled with bible passages (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21). Jews put them on the doorframes of houses and other buildings. Their presence reveals that the filmmakers used an Israeli location for that hotel instead of a German one.