The Counterfeiters (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Produced by | Josef Aichholzer Nina Bohlmann Babette Schröder |
| Written by | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
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Die Fälscher by Adolf Burger |
| Starring |
Karl Markovics August Diehl Devid Striesow |
| Music by | Marius Ruhland |
| Cinematography | Benedict Neuenfels |
| Edited by | Britta Nahler |
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| Distributed by | Filmladen (Austria) Universum Film (Germany) |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Austria Germany |
| Language | German Russian English Hebrew |
| Budget | $6,250,000 |
| Box office | $20,199,663 |
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 the Second World War 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 a memoir written by Adolf Burger, 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. Ruzowitsky 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.
The film begins shortly after the end of the Second World War, with a German man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and attracting the attention of a beautiful French woman. Later, she discovers tattooed numerals on his arm, revealing him as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.
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