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The Counterfeiters

Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)

2007

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach ...

7.2

24,477

Drama Berlin in 1936. Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. Life's no more than a game to him in his world of crooks, gigolos and loose women. And the cash he needs for his gambling - he simply prints himself. But then, one day, someone blows the whistle on him; he is arrested by superintendent Herzog and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. When he is moved to Sachsenhausen in 1944, Sorowitsch fears the worst. But life has one last ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"A flawed but fascinating film (...) And it is flawed because the moral implications of this scheme are so charged and turbulent that they defy neat resolution (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jim Emerson rogerebert.com	"'The Counterfeiters' is based on a fascinating piece of history (...) The trouble is that the storytelling and filmmaking are routine, even when the human drama is not (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"That it succeeds more than it fails owes something to Mr. Ruzowitsky’s skill and good sense, and even more to his lead actor’s instinct and conviction."	POS
United States	David Fear Time Out	"Ruzowitzky's faux-doc shaky-cam zooms are less about the banality of evil than the inappropriateness of style."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed."	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Full of the weird details that, though unsurprising on one level, are so jarringly wrong that they seem fresh."	NEU

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