"The truth stays in this room, between us"
In 1997 an Israeli journalist is at the launch of her new
book. The story is based on her mother’s (Helen Mirren) first assignment as a
Mossad agent in which she and two other agents captured the Nazi War Criminal “The
Surgeon of Birkenau” (Jasper Christensen). The plot then shows what happened in
The film goes back and forth from 1965 to 1997 but stays in
1965 for the most part. We watch as Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain) arrives in
Berlin and takes up her role as a field agent along with David Peretz (Sam
Worthington) and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas). The trio successfully track down
the old Doctor and capture him before a problem with his extraction means that
they have to bring him to their apartment and find a new means of escape. The
film is full of surprising twists and revelations which along with some great
acting and terrific script make a dramatic thriller.
