The Debt | |
---|---|
![]() Theatrical release poster
|
|
Directed by | John Madden |
Produced by |
Matthew Vaughn Kris Thykier |
Screenplay by | Matthew Vaughn Jane Goldman Peter Straughan |
Based on |
Ha-Hov by Assaf Bernstein Ido Rosenblum |
Starring |
Helen Mirren Sam Worthington Jessica Chastain Jesper Christensen Marton Csokas Ciarán Hinds Tom Wilkinson |
Music by | Thomas Newman |
Cinematography | Ben Davis |
Edited by | Alexander Berner |
Production
company |
|
Distributed by |
Focus Features Miramax |
Release date
|
|
Running time
|
113 minutes |
Country |
|
Language |
|
Budget | $20 million |
Box office | $45.6 million |
The Debt is a 2010 Anglo-American remake of the 2007 Israeli fictional alternate history drama-thriller film Ha-Hov, directed by John Madden from a screenplay by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. It stars Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas and Jesper Christensen.
Although ready for release already in July 2010, and scheduled for a December 2010 release in the United States, the film only toured various film festivals during the autumn of 2010 and spring of 2011. It didn't see a general release until it was released in France on 15 June 2011, followed by Kazakhstan and Russia in July 2011, and United States, Canada and India on 31 August 2011.
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.