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The Counterfeiters
The movie is about Salomon Sorowitsch, a swindler who is coerced into assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and then makes a name for himself as Berlin's 'King of the Counterfeiters.'
















10 October 1975, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]




19 September 1946, Vienna, Austria



23 November 1963, Heggen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

6 November 1972


1958




6 October 1980, Vorwerk, Lower Saxony, Germany

1967, Dresden, German Democratic Republic

1 October 1976, Graz, Styria, Austria

28 May 1985, Berlin, Germany

7 January 1956, Urbana, Illinois, USA



4 January 1976, Berlin, Germany

9 January 1982, Berlin, Germany

1970


1939

1950

26 October 1940, Augsburg, Germany


7 May 1969, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany



April 18, 2009
It's a true story of the human condition, the Holocaust and history.
August 12, 2008
What would you do if your only chance of survival involved aiding the Nazi regime?
August 11, 2008
El resultado es notable, tanto como inquietante y hasta quizás incómoda reflexión sobre el instinto de supervivencia del ser humano, y también como pieza cinematográfica.
April 28, 2011
Sally Sorowitsch is the little gangster who outsmarts the big gangsters. What could be more gratifying than that?
March 20, 2008
Based on a real-life Nazi operation, the film is a tense drama with performances that elevate the movie to the front rank of films set in concentration camps.
March 22, 2016
Although there is nothing ground-breaking about The Counterfeiters, it tells a moving and engrossing story with depth and intelligence, and is well worth seeing.
March 14, 2008
It's impossible not to respond to The Counterfeiters and the haunting questions it raises.
April 24, 2008
This dark, absorbing thriller is not just a moral exercise in the awful choices faced by those determined to survive history's worst genocide. It invites us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of a not-quite-lovable rogue.
September 04, 2009
2008's Oscar-winning foreign film is unquestionably good, a wholly absorbing and taut drama that is as engaging as it is powerful. But Oscar-worthy? There's room for debate.
April 13, 2008
The Counterfeiters, written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies.
March 14, 2008
Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp.
October 18, 2008
As writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky shows, powerfully, affectingly, in The Counterfeiters, the privileges experienced by this small team of Jews and criminals came at a price.