The Counterfeiters

Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film by Stefan Ruzowitzky counterfeiters is the first Austrian film to ever receive that prestigious honor. Based on the memoirs of Adolf Burger, the film tells the ... Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film by Stefan Ruzowitzky counterfeiters is the first Austrian film to ever receive that prestigious honor. Based on the memoirs of Adolf Burger, the film tells the inspiring story of a pre-World War II and cunning criminal whose fiery spirit that it can overcome deadly odds and survive life in Germany's concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Before the war, Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is one of the most ingenious forgers, until he was finally caught and arrested by Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow)

Years later, as the Nazi movement is in full swing, the charming nefariously Herzog - now a Nazi leader - Sorowitsch recruited to head the forgery of a huge project called Operation Bernhard. Located in a terrible state of moral corruption, Sorowitsch is forced to decide whether or not to save his own life or prevent the Nazis from causing more damage, even on a larger scale. His companion prisoner Adolf Burger (August Diehl) is determined to sabotage the operation, but a proposal Sorowitsch understand how dangerous this is. While counterfeiters are based on real-life tragedy, which never loses its main purpose as a work of dramatic entertainment. This skillful balancing act is what keeps moving Ruzowitzky's story becomes too dark and depressing. The result is a very impressive work that deals with a subject not often explored in the cinema of the Holocaust - the dilemma of victims who were forced to act illegally and immorally for the improvement of their captors. Powerfully acted by Markovics, counterfeiters is the kind of film that was made for the Oscars.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Feb 22, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $5,351,533
Starring: August Diehl, Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow, Dolores Chaplin, August Zirner, Marie Bäumer
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Screenwriter: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producer: Josef Aichholzer, Nina Bohlmann, Babette Schroder
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Trailer :www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwr9nCurEEQ