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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396239203
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 05, 2008
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 2449
MPN: COLD23920D
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Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, The Counterfeiters tells the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), a swindler who made a name for himself as Berlin's "King of the Counterfeiters." However, his life of women and easy money is cut short when he's arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp. With the German army on the verge of bankruptcy, Sorowitsch makes a sobering deal with his captors: in exchange for a comfortable bed, good food and fair treatment, Sorowitsch, along with the other hand-picked specialists, must counterfeit bank notes to fund the Nazi War effort. If he does as they say, he lives another day. If he rebels, he faces the same fate as the rest of the camp's prisoners. But if he lives, will he be able to live with himself?
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A deft blend of suspense and docudrama, Stefan Ruzowitzky's sixth feature focuses on history's largest counterfeiting operation. Before World War II breaks out, Salomon Sorowitsch (the compact yet steely Karl Markovics), a Russian-born Jew, lives the good life in Berlin. He forges documents, like passports and banknotes, and sketches beautiful women to the romantic strains of tango records. Sorowitsch's dolce vita comes to an end when he's sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. Once Reich officials decide to deploy imprisoned printers, craftsmen, and bank officials to counterfeit foreign currency, they draft Sorowitsch for "Operation Bernhard" and ship him to Sachsenhausen. Though he and his colleagues receive preferential treatment, the threat of execution hangs over their heads at all times. First, they master the pound; then they tackle the American dollar. At this point, communist co-worker Adolf Burger (The Ninth Day's excellent August Diehl) suggests sabotage. As he explains, they're extending the conflict and increasing the death toll, but the entire team will suffer if they fail, even their SS supervisor, Freidrich Herzog (Downfall's Devid Striesow), whose career depends on it. As Jews, however, they stand to lose more than their jobs. Based on Burger's book The Devil's Workshop, Austria's Ruzowitzky (Anatomy) sheds a compassionate light on the guilt and complicity of survivors. Though The Counterfeiters plays more like a prison camp movie than a Holocaust drama--Stalag 17 comes to mind--that doesn't make it any less significant, just less wrenching than some of its counterparts. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is a professional criminal, a master counterfeiter and a Jew. He winds up in a brutal Nazi labor camp because of all three. Sally also is a survivor. He's not idealistic about Judaism, he knows how prisons work and how to survive. His goal is simple: Do whatever it takes to stay alive and try to use every bit of guile and opportunism he has to get more food and to escape the work designed to kill the inmates. He winds up being jeered as a Jew but painting heroic ... Read More
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I thought German/Austrian people had had a long history of film-making, watching this pathetic little drama unfold made me think otherwise. It is about a counterfeiter called something or other who is forced to make fake dollar/pounds bills at a - yawn!! - concentration camp. The sets were of such poor quality and cost-cutting so evident that it was really shocking. I had an almost claustrophobic feeling; as if some amateur actors got together, selected an abandoned warehouse in erstwhile East German ... Read More
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I am not going to praise the acting, cinematography, direction and everything else about this movie that is really super - the movie got an Academy Award. What I do wish to say is that coming up with the idea to make a movie on the Nazis and the counterfeiting exercise is brilliant and original. I think most other aspects of World War II have been repeated over and over again in too many different ways (The excellent HBO series "Band of Brothers" did come to mind).
The other point I wish ... Read More
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"The Counterfeiters" tells the story of concentration camp prisoners working for the Nazis during World War II. The prisoners, all Jewish, make up phony passports and identification papers for spies and other criminals and then graduate into producing counterfeit currencies. They start with the British pound paper and then go on to the U. S. dollar. They were especially successful with the pound notes they produce revealing the little known story of how this could have brought the British economy to ... Read More
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For Sally (or Salomon), a Russian jew, business was good in 1932 Germany. While Nazism was on the rise, that only meant there was a growing need for false papers -- and he was the reputed "king of the counterfeiters." He had no interest in politics, and thought he could avoid suspicion by being clever. It turned out he was wrong. He is captured and finds that his skill as an artist and ultimately his abilities as a counterfeiter make him valuable, but only as long as he is able to convince his fellow ... Read More
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