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* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Zev Guttman turns out to be this, having died in Auschwitz, with the character we've been following revealed to be Nazi war criminal Otto Wallisch.

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* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Zev Guttman turns out to be this, having died in Auschwitz, with the character we've been following revealed to be Nazi war criminal Otto Wallisch.Wallisch, who stole his identity to escape capture when World War II ended.

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* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler:Zev learns he ''is'' Wallisch, and kills himself after learning this.]]

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* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler:Zev learns he ''is'' ''he'' is Wallisch, and kills himself after learning this.]] ]]
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Zev Guttman turns out to be this, having died in Auschwitz, with the character we've been following revealed to be Nazi war criminal Otto Wallisch.
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Not to be confused with the [[Webcomic/{{Remember}} webcomic]] of the same name.

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Not to be confused with the [[Webcomic/{{Remember}} webcomic]] of the same name. A South Korean remake was released in 2022.


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* VigilanteMan: Max and Zev are determined to kill the Nazi who murdered their families. The former is too feeble for action however so Zev is sent out on the hunt.

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* VigilanteMan: Max and Zev are determined to kill the Nazi who murdered their families. families before he dies of old age. The former is too feeble for action however so Zev is sent out on the hunt.hunt.
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:The revelation that Zev is fugitive Nazi Otto Wallisch makes him this.]]
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: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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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: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, knowing how devastating it would be for her to learn that her beloved husband was a Nazi war criminal who helped perpetrate her people's genocide.]]

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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: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, knowing how home. It would've been devastating it would be for her to learn that her beloved husband was a Nazi war criminal who helped perpetrate her people's genocide.]]
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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler:Max chose not to inform Zev's wife Ruth about his true identity as Otto Wallisch due to her having terminal cancer, knowing how devastating it would be for her to learn that her beloved husband was a Nazi war criminal who helped perpetrate her people's genocide.]]

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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler:Max [[spoiler:Presumably why Max chose not to inform Zev's wife Ruth about his true identity as Otto Wallisch due to her having terminal cancer, Wallisch, as she was dying of cancer when she and Zev moved into the nursing home, knowing how devastating it would be for her to learn that her beloved husband was a Nazi war criminal who helped perpetrate her people's genocide.]]
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* ObliviousToTheirOwnDescription: When the fourth Rudy Kurlander denies being Otto Wallisch, Zev tells him "you've lived the lie for so long you believe it's true." [[spoiler:It turns out Kurlander's true identity is Kunibert Sturm and Zev is Wallisch, his dementia and years of living the lie of being a Holocaust survivor having caused him to believe his fake past is his real past.]]
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** [[spoiler: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.]]

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** [[spoiler: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.fugitive Nazi.]]



* NaziHunter: The film's main premise. Max is a retired one, [[spoiler:Zev turns out be a Nazi who's a Nazi hunter.]]

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* NaziHunter: The film's main premise. Max is a retired one, one who personally worked with Simon Wiesenthal, [[spoiler:Zev turns out be a Nazi who's a Nazi hunter.]]
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** [[spoiler: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.]]

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* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:It appears Max chose not to inform Zev's wife Ruth about his true identity as Otto Wallisch due to her having terminal cancer, knowing the reveal would devastate her.]]

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* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:It appears Max chose not to inform Zev's wife Ruth about his true identity as Otto Wallisch due to her having terminal cancer, knowing the reveal would devastate her.]]


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* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler:Max chose not to inform Zev's wife Ruth about his true identity as Otto Wallisch due to her having terminal cancer, knowing how devastating it would be for her to learn that her beloved husband was a Nazi war criminal who helped perpetrate her people's genocide.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: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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** [[spoiler:John, the cop who turns out to be a Neo-Nazi.]]

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** [[spoiler:John, [[spoiler:John Kurlander, the cop who turns out to be a Neo-Nazi.]]
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** [[spoiler:Zev/Wallisch and Kurlander/Sturm, who were Nazis that pretended to be Jewish to escape punishment after the war.]]

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** [[spoiler:Zev/Wallisch [[spoiler:Zev Guttman/Otto Wallisch and Kurlander/Sturm, Rudy Kurlander/Kunibert Sturm, who were Nazis that pretended to be Jewish to escape punishment after the war.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: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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