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Print The legend surrounding Israel's secret service, the
Mossad, has grown to mythic proportions. They seem capable of
anything, and while many of their accomplishments are startling
in daring and ingenuity, like any secret agency, they also have
the power to conceal their mistakes. That's the gist behind a
2007 Israeli film and its Hollywood action-thriller remake, The
Debt.  Shifting between the 1960s and the 1990s, The Debt has a
superb cast playing the characters at different ages. It stars
Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson as Rachel and Stefan, retired
Mossad agents responding to renewed publicity surrounding their
most famous mission, a 1965 raid into East Berlin to apprehend a
Mengele-like death camp doctor. The best-selling account written
by their daughter stirs unpleasant reflections and triggers
twists and turns in the plot.  Rachel, Stefan and their partner
David were lionized f