The Counterfeiters-Stefan Ruzowitzky, Karl Markovics

At the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival FilmCatcher caught up with writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky, an Austrian-German whose own grandparents supported the Nazi party, on the moral implications of making a concentration camp film. Lead actor Karl Markovics joins in on discarding his historical perspective in order to play the Jewish master counterfeiter whose skill saved his life while helping the Nazis.

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