The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) (2007)

G E R M A N Y / Deutschland (19 movies items)

"original title: Die Fälscher "

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (292 movies items)

"2007 WINNER - Austria - Stefan Ruzowitzky) "

100 Greatest Foreign Movies by Digitaldreamdoor (125 movies items)

"Country of Origin: Germany"

Film Diary - 2012 (391 movies items)

"Date watched: 22nd December, 2012 Project: None Why?: Not watched before Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Thoughts: It was alright. A good story."

Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film of the Year (55 movies items)

"2008 Austria - 1st Oscar "

"The Counterfeiters" By Nosferatu

“"A genius con artist put to work by the Nazis. A survivor's tale you've never seen before."

   "The Counterfeiters" is a movie based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger recalling events on a concentration camp, during the Second World War.

   Although the movie is most of the time boring, the storyline itself is interesting and very simple; Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, the king of counterfeiters, known by the forging of documents and others, is arrested by the Nazis and taken to a concentration camp to forge bank notes. A Jew working with him, decides to sabotage the Nazi's secret plan to flood the British economy with forged bank notes.

"   It takes a clever man to make money, it takes a genius to stay alive"

   It's another WWII movie e” read more