Reel Lessons

Reel Lessons: The Debt

How an Israeli hit squad that needs to finish off a job from the past is a lot like Greece.
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Helen Mirren, haunted by the "Surgeon of Birkenau" in The Debt
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<div style="text-align: left;"> Helen Mirren, haunted by the "Surgeon of Birkenau" in The Debt </div>

So this is some gritty thriller about vampire squids, fictional statistics and exploding bond yields?
Not exactly. It is actually about a secret Israeli hit squad that travels to East Berlin in the 1960s to capture a Nazi war criminal, known as the Surgeon of Birkenau. Things go awry and decisions are made that come back to haunt the team 30 years later.


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