Runzel, Ideology of The Debt

The Debt Starring Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren), Stephan Gold (Tom Wilinson), and David Peretz (Ciaran Hinds) are a two-part story about the redemption of a country that was left in turmoil after World War II. Three Israeli operatives are sent into east Berlin to find and extract the Dieter Vogel "The Surgeon of Birkenau" and bring him back to Israel to stand trial. Stephan Gold is in charge of the mission that goes horribly wrong. During the extraction at the train stop Rachel Singer almost gets caught and they are forced to flee with their prisoner. They hide in their apartment and keep Dieter Vogel tied up in the living room from over a month. Dieter upsets David Peretz already fragile state of mind, whose entire family was killed in internment camps. David beats him and breaks a plate on his face; the shards of glass gave him the tools Dieter needed to escape. The three vowed to never speak of this failure and to tell the world that "The Surgeon of Birkenau" was dead. Years after the three failed to kill Dieter; Rachel Singers Daughter whose father is Stephen Gold releases a novel about her mother’s triumph in capturing "The Surgeon of Birkenau". At the same time Dieter begins to make waves and the group fears they will be discovered. David kills himself, and Rachel finds and kills Dieter. In killing "The Surgeon of Birkenau" Rachel confesses to the fake story and limps out of the hospital. These lies create an implicit ideology as the three are sent to kill or bring to trial a man who killed thousands but even when they have the chance to simply exterminate him their moral value wont allow them. Nonetheless their love for Israel forces them to lie to help heal a nation and a people. The group’s morals and their nationalism clash and represent the struggle of a people ravaged by war left to persecute Ex-Nazi leaders.