The Counterfeiters (2007)

Original title

Die Fälscher

Directed by

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Genre

drama film, crime film, historical film

Country

Germany, Austria

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

14

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 692 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a Jewish counterfeiter is forced by the Nazis to help produce fake British currency. He and other prisoners in a concentration camp must balance survival against the moral cost of aiding the enemy.

tensesombermorally complexdeliberate-pacedhistoricalgrimsuspensefulintimate

What happens

The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The film is based on the 1983 Czech-language memoir Komando padělatelů ("The Commando of Counterfeiters") by Adolf Burger, which was published in English as The Devil's Workshop. Burger was a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation and was later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard. Ruzowitzky consulted closely with Burger through almost every stage of the writing and production. The film won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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