Directed by: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Staring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl & Devid Striesow
Best Foreign Language Film at the ‘08 Oscars, the ‘Counterfeiters’ is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history. In 1936, the Nazis intention is to flood the British and American economies with fake currency.
Enlisted to assist were any concentration camp inmates with the right skills – among them master forger, gambler and playboy Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch.
He is at first energized by his task and by the treatment that his status affords him.
However, as the war grinds on, he is faced with a moral dilemma, and must decide whether his actions, which could prolong the war and risk the lives of fellow prisoners, are ultimately the right ones. What is his solution?