Atom Egoyan's new film Remember will premiere on 10 September at the Venice Film Festival and on 12 September in Toronto, Hollywood Reporter reports.

The main character of the film is a Holocaust survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family 70 years before is still alive and living in America. The hero chooses the path of revenge.

“[Christopher Plummer] plays a Holocaust survivor with early stages of dementia and thinks he has found someone responsible for killing his family in Auschwitz and goes on a revenge mission, but keeps on forgetting why. It is really a fantastic role for him -- we always promised to work together again [after Ararat] and this just seemed the perfect script for him. My job in this film was to keep it as simple as possible and just keep the camera trained on Chris,” Egoyan said.  

“The character that Plummer is playing [focuses on] that idea of people near the end of their lives still trying to find justice, and realizing that the regular channels won't serve that, which is why he takes it on himself. It is a revenge film. It posits the idea that after all this time, those wounds have not healed. It is going to provoke a lot of discussion.

Both stories are deeply personal. In Ararat, Plummer plays a customs officer, and interestingly enough -- I've only just realized this -- there is a scene in the new film, a very important scene, where he is dealing with a customs officer [while] trying to cross a border to find the… monster who killed his family,” the film director said.