Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer give outstanding performances in this story of two aged Auschwitz survivors, living in a nursing home in the United States.

Plummer is Zev Gutman, whose wife, Ruth, has just passed away. Landau is Max Rosenbaum, who is on oxygen and bound to a wheelchair.

Max has done his research, and planned, in intricate detail, the execution of a former block fuehrer at the concentration camp where both their families were murdered.

There is a complication; Zev – which means Wolf – suffers from dementia and the only way for him to remember the plan is to read the instructions for each step in a letter that Max has written him.

Max sends Zev on a cross-country mission to buy a gun and track down one of four men living under the assumed name, Rudy Kurlander…

The story is compelling and perfectly woven and Plummer’s performance is flawless.

8.5/10