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Dominican Rep. The Counterfeiters
- Original title
- Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
Austria- Director
- Screenwriter
- Stefan Ruzowitzky. Story: Adolf Burger
- Cast
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Karl Markovics
August Diehl
Devid Striesow
Martin Brambach
August Zirner
Veit Stübner
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Andreas Schmidt- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Austria-Germany;
- Genre
- Drama | Nazism. Holocaust. 1930s. Based on a true story
- Synopsis
- 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 chance in store for him. On his arrival he is greeted by none other than superintendent Herzog who is here on a secret mission: Sorowitsch and a group of hand-picked professionals are to produce fake foreign currency. And lots of it. The aim of the exercise is to cripple the economies of Germany's allied opponents - a bizarre idea mooted shortly before the end of a Nazi regime in the vague hope that this would somehow help them to survive the horror. To this end, Herzog has created a golden cage for the expert team of fakers. Theirs are 'first class' barracks that are clean; the beds are soft, there is plenty to eat, there are proper toilets, even the odd party. But one thing is made certain from the outset: they face death should their work lead to failure. This puts them in an unbearable moral dilemma: cooperating with their executioners will prolong the war and may mean victory for the Germans. Perhaps they can save their own skins, but they will put the lives of so many of their fellow-sufferers in jeopardy. All of sudden, it's no longer a question of survival, but one of conscience.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2007: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture2007: Valladolid Film Festival - Seminci: Espiga of Plata, Best Actor (Karl Markovics)2007: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection2007: National Board of Review: Top 5 - Foreign Films2006: German Film Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Devid Striesow)
- Critics' reviews
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"Ruzowitzky's faux-doc shaky-cam zooms are less about the banality of evil than the inappropriateness of style."
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"Demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed."
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"Full of the weird details that, though unsurprising on one level, are so jarringly wrong that they seem fresh."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 38 My Top 10 Movies from 2007 (124)
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