I’m watching this movie on Netflix. According to Wikipedia’s plot summary:
In 1965, Mossad agent Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain) arrives in East Berlin to meet with fellow agents David Peretz (Sam Worthington) and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas). Their mission is to capture Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen)—infamously known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau” for his medical experiments on Jews during World War II—and bring him to Israel to face justice.
After the surgeon is captured by three members of the Mossad, he inquires of Rachel Singer, “How is my wife?”
Apparently on instruction, she does not answer him with words but quietly nods to him later to indicate his wife is fine.
Rachel is then told: “You can’t talk to him. You can’t listen to him… We don’t talk to him. We don’t listen to him. He isn’t there. He isn’t a human being.”
That is how you treat Nazis. That is how you treat racists. That is how you treat heretics aka people like Spinoza.
Near the end of the film, Rachel’s ex-husband and Mossad partner on the 1965 hit tells her: “Truth is a luxury. Some people have to hold other things first, their country, their people, their children.”
