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Re;member	page	Remember
Re;member	comment	A 2015 Canadian-German drama-thriller film directed by Atom Egoyan and produced by the companies Egoli Tossel Film and Serendipity Point Films.It follows Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer), an 89-year-old survivor of The Holocaust, who seeks to hunt down Otto Wallisch, who murdered his family as well as that of fellow Holocaust survivor Max Rosenbaum (Martin Landau).Not to be confused with the webcomic of the same name. A South Korean remake was released in 2022.
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Re;member / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Re;member / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: The Rudy Kurlander in Bruneau passed his Nazi beliefs on to his son.
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Re;member / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
Re;member / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: Zev mistakes two of the Rudy Kurlanders as Otto Wallisch, the man he's hunting. The first only fought in North Africa with Rommel, while the second was himself a Holocaust survivor. Thankfully, in both cases he doesn't kill them before learning of this, even with his dementia.
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Re;member / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Re;member / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Averted. Two Nazis are dead and Max receives justice for his family, but everyone is shaken by the revelation that two friendly and kind old men were, in fact, murderers that got away with their crimes for so long. Everyone's thoughts including the audience is left to YMMV.
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Re;member / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Re;member / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: After some previous hints, it's revealed that Zev is the Nazi he's been hunting.
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Re;member / int_326a740c	type	Scatterbrained Senior
Re;member / int_326a740c	comment	Scatterbrained Senior: Zev is 89 and suffering from severe dementia, to the point he often forgets what he's doing or that his wife recently died. Not only that, but he forgot his own Nazi past.
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Re;member / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Re;member / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Zev meets the last Rudy Kurlander, Kurlander comments that a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust wouldn't like Wagner's music (which Zev was playing on the piano while waiting for Kurlander to awaken), to which Zev states that it would be like not liking music at all. Later, Kurlander hugs him and says that he knew that Zev would come find him, which is rather odd, since a Nazi officer at Auschwitz would be unlikely to remember every single prisoner there, or alternatively, Kurlander meant that he knew a survivor would go after him at some point, yet he still greets Zev unapprehensively despite his helplessness? Both were Nazis and brothers-in-arms.
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Re;member / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Re;member / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Zev/Otto Wallisch and Kunibert Sturm pay for their crimes in the Holocaust with their lives, avenging Max's family and their countless other victims. However, the Guttman and Kurlander families are left to deal with the fact that their patriarchs were Nazi war criminals who impersonated deceased Auschwitz prisoners to escape justice, which will no doubt become a major news story that will put them heavily under the media spotlight.
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Re;member / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Re;member / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Zev/Otto Wallisch, who lived as a Jew for decades and has forgotten his past as a Nazi. It's implied he already loathed himself prior to his dementia for his past atrocities. He immediately shoots himself on remembering. Kunibert Sturm, the last Rudy Kurlander who he kills, also shows signs of this.
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Re;member / int_47463de7	type	Nazi Hunter
Re;member / int_47463de7	comment	Nazi Hunter: The film's main premise. Max is a retired one who personally worked with Simon Wiesenthal, Zev turns out be a Nazi who's a Nazi hunter.
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Re;member / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Re;member / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "You are Otto Wallisch!"
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Re;member / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Re;member / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The final shot of the film shows that the picture of Otto Wallisch, which had been hidden from the viewer until then, depicts a young Christopher Plummer.
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Re;member / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Re;member / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The security guard that stops Zev at Target when he walks out with an item still tagged with a security marker finds that Zev has a Glock. He leaves him be instead of wondering if an elderly man should be walking around with such a gun or if he even has a permit. You would think he'd at least call the police.
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Re;member / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Re;member / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Max's confession letter at the end, it is written that Sturm took the name Rudy Kurlander from a Jew killed in Auschwitz's gas chambers and that Zev/Wallisch personally shot Max's father and cousins.
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Re;member / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Re;member / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Rudy Kurlander in Bruneau had a son and a grandson. His son also married and divorced twice, loves his father and son, and also admired his father. The last Rudy Kurlander, Kunibert Sturm, had multiple children and is living with his youngest daughter and his granddaughter. When Zev threatens to shoot them if he doesn't confess, he does so. After Otto Wallisch took on the persona of Zev Guttman, he married a Jewish woman named Ruth and it's implied that he truly loved her and their son Charles.
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Re;member / int_66c2ca76	type	Nazi Grandpa
Re;member / int_66c2ca76	comment	Nazi Grandpa: Zev is hunting for one, the former SS blockfuhrer at Auschwitz who killed his and Max's families, Otto Wallisch. Due to his dementia, he's forgotten that he is Wallisch. Kunibert Sturm, his former comrade, is another example. Both appear to hate what they did in Auschwitz though, subverting the usual portrayals.
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Re;member / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Re;member / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Zev is the Nazi Otto Wallisch, who he had been hunting.
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Re;member / int_6b750ec9	type	I Am a Monster
Re;member / int_6b750ec9	comment	I Am a Monster: Zev learns he is Wallisch, and kills himself after learning this.
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Re;member / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Re;member / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Zev means "wolf" in Yiddish. Sturm tells Zev/Wallisch he chose the name to remind himself that he was a "wolf", i.e. a hunter.
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Re;member / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Re;member / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Zev cannot live with the knowledge that he was once a Nazi and chooses to shoot himself.
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Re;member / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Re;member / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Otto Wallisch and Kunibert Sturm took the identities of Zev Guttman and Rudy Kurlander from murdered Auschwitz prisoners, with Max's confession letter mentioning that Kurlander was killed in an Auschwitz gas chamber.
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Re;member / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Re;member / int_868409c	comment	The last Rudy Kurlander lives in a big house with his youngest daughter and his granddaughter who love him dearly and think he was a Holocaust survivor. Averted in the end, in which they see him as a Broken Pedestal after learning his true identity and he gets killed in an emotional confrontation with Zev.
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Re;member / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Re;member / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The revelation that Zev is fugitive Nazi Otto Wallisch makes him this.
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Re;member / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Re;member / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of The Promise and Revenge. Due to his advanced age and dementia, once Zev leaves his nursing home to travel the country in spite of his condition, it leads to numerous problems, such as needing to depend on Max's letter to remind himself of his task, forgetting to pack clothes, not having enough money, falling down while crossing the street and nearly getting run over, wetting himself, and so on.
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Re;member / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Re;member / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: John Kurlander, the cop who turns out to be a Neo-Nazi. Zev Guttman/Otto Wallisch and Rudy Kurlander/Kunibert Sturm, who were Nazis that pretended to be Jewish to escape punishment after the war.
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Re;member / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Re;member / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Averted: John's father was a cook for the Nazis at the age of ten, but their values stayed instilled in him even after the war when he could have known better. He continued to believe in those values and passed them down to his son. Played straight for Molly, who doesnâ€™t understand what Auschwitz is.
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Re;member / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Re;member / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: This is Max and Zev's motivation-to kill the Nazi who murdered their families.
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Re;member / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
Re;member / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: Max, from the day he entered the same nursing home as Zev, recognized Zev as Wallisch. Max instead chooses to falsely befriend Zev and take advantage of Zev's dementia to trick him into playing out the events of the movie.
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Re;member / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Re;member / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: Presumably why Max chose not to inform Zev's wife Ruth about his true identity as Otto Wallisch, as she was dying of cancer when she and Zev moved into the nursing home. It would've been devastating for her to learn that her beloved husband was a Nazi war criminal who helped perpetrate her people's genocide.
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Re;member / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Re;member / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The cop's dog is a German shepherd named Eva. The part about the breed seems like a harmless coincidence, since police dogs can be the same breed. It turns out the cop is a Neo-Nazi. When Zev is taking a bath and looks at the showerhead, faint sounds of people screaming can be heard. If Zev had been a prisoner at Auschwitz and been inside a gas chamber, he would not have survived. This is a hint that he was actually a Nazi. At the gun store, the owner mentions how background checks confirm whether a buyer is a fugitive, to which Zev reacts strongly. Zev turns out to actually be a fugitive Nazi.
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Re;member / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Re;member / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: In his old age, Rudy Kurlander/Kunibert Sturm is implied to have viewed his service in the SS as this. Zev/Wallisch, learning his own true identity while under dementia, views his own actions as this as well and kills himself.
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Re;member / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Re;member / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Zev is Wallisch.
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Re;member / int_a63fd70f	type	The Promise
Re;member / int_a63fd70f	comment	The Promise: Zev and Max vow they will hunt down the Nazi who killed their families before either he or they die.
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Re;member / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Re;member / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Max urges Zev to find the blockfuhrer who had killed their loves ones in Auschwitz and kill him, because their old age will kill them before he can be found and put on trial. The Rudy Kurlander in Bruneau, Idaho passed away a few months before Zev could find him. He had a son and a grandson. However, he had been only a boy then and a cook, but passed on Nazism to his family. The last Rudy Kurlander lives in a big house with his youngest daughter and his granddaughter who love him dearly and think he was a Holocaust survivor. Averted in the end, in which they see him as a Broken Pedestal after learning his true identity and he gets killed in an emotional confrontation with Zev. It appears to be subverted with Max at the end of the film as the closing shot shows he has written a confession to his plan. Zev, until the end.
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Re;member / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Re;member / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The cop thinks that Zev lied to him about being a Nazi and is actually a Jewish survivor. It's actually the other way around.
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Re;member / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Re;member / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Rudy Kurlander #1 (played by Bruno Ganz) was a Wehrmacht soldier sympathetic to the Nazi cause in his youth and said that he had no real sympathy for Jews as people, but he sincerely had no idea that the mass murders were going on and says that what happened was shameful.
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Re;member / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Re;member / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The girl at the hospital, Molly, mentions liking Disney Channel and Phineas and Ferb. Zev understands Disney as in Mickey Mouse, though is unfamiliar with the latter cartoon.
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Re;member / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
Re;member / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Max and Zev are determined to kill the Nazi who murdered their families before he dies of old age. The former is too feeble for action however so Zev is sent out on the hunt.
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Re;member / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Re;member / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Max manipulates Zev into carrying out his mission, relying on the fact that he has dementia and cannot recall his true identity.
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Re;member / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
Re;member / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: Max and Zev, two Jewish men in a New York City nursing home, have put together one to track down the Nazi Otto Wallisch who killed their families before he dies (or they do). It's revealed Max also has a second one-Zev is Wallisch, so Max's manipulated him into hunting down his accomplice and then himself.
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Re;member / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Re;member / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Max's confession letter at the end says that his father was among the relatives of his killed by Zev/Wallisch.
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