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.'
1950
28 May 1985, Berlin, Germany
1 October 1973, Bergen auf Rügen, East Germany [now Germany]
1967, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
9 January 1982, Berlin, Germany
1939
7 May 1969, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
6 October 1980, Vorwerk, Lower Saxony, Germany
29 August 1963, Vienna, Austria
6 November 1972
19 September 1946, Vienna, Austria
7 January 1956, Urbana, Illinois, USA
1970
1965, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
10 October 1975, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
1 October 1976, Graz, Styria, Austria
1958
1962, Berlin, Germany
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.
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 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.
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.
March 14, 2008
It's impossible not to respond to The Counterfeiters and the haunting questions it raises.
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?
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 28, 2011
Sally Sorowitsch is the little gangster who outsmarts the big gangsters. What could be more gratifying than that?
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 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.
March 14, 2008
Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp.
