This question shows how difficult it was for the Yishuv (Jewish leadership in Palestine at the time) to understand these survivors and what they went through. How come you didn’t fight back and went like sheep to the slaughter?” asks Menash (Oz Zehavi), a young Jewish Brigade solider, of Max (August Diehl), a Holocaust survivor who lost his wife and son.

The story of these brave Jewish “avengers” was unknown for many years. It premiered at the 2021 Haifa Film Festival in October 2021 for 500 enthusiastic viewers, and received the festival’s top prize for artistic achievement.

The film is based on real-life testimonials and the book “Nakam ” by Dina Porat. “Plan A” is an Israeli-German co-production directed by Yoav and Doron Paz, the Israel-born brothers behind the 2015 indie zombie horror hit “Jeruzalem” and 2018’s “The Golem.” The cast includes leading German and Israeli actors such as August Diehl and Sylvia Hoeks alongside famous Israeli actors Michael Aloni (“ Shtisel”), Oz Zehavi and Ishai Golan, who plays Abba Kovner, the poet and charismatic leader of the Nakam group. Despite their immense loss, the world expects them to turn the other cheek and move on - and they certainly don’t intend to do that.

This film, set in 1945 in recently-defeated Germany, tells the unimaginable - and untold - tale of 45 young Holocaust survivors who realize they have lost everything and therefore have nothing to lose. This heart-piercing question opens the Holocaust revenge drama “Plan A,” based on a true story. “What if I told you that your family was murdered for no reason at all? Now, ask yourself, what would you do? ”

Nakam by Dina Porat