Film- The Counterfeiters

[psycosynthesis]

Saw this the other night. Very powerful movie. Anyone seen it?

 

[PureLife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwr9nCurEEQ


I was going to make a thread on this movie, as I saw it a month or so ago. soooo well, I'll revive this one!


The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2006 Austrian-German film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England currency. The film centers on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The film is based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation, and later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard.[3] Ruzowitsky consulted closely with Burger through almost every stage of the writing and production. The film won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.



This movie had me sitting on the edge of my seat the entire time. I'm not one to really watch Holocaust films, but this one struck me as something new and just fresh. Truly a great even happened and I'm happy there was a film made to make others aware.



Watch the trailer, ii gives you a pretty good idea of what the film is about.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

Film: The Counterfeiters

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