Monday, August 18, 2008

The Counterfeiters [2007]

1936: From a concentration camp of the Nazis, came the biggest counterfeiting operation in history. They made British Pound notes that even fooled the Bank of England.

Salomon Sorowitsch – a master forger arrested before the war cooperated with the evil for survival while his camp-mate Adolf Burger sabotaged numerous attempts to forge the American dollar, delaying it by six weeks, which was crucial for the Nazis to fund the war…

A true story of a counterfeiting operation that was planned such that no one would ever know because the Jews who worked on it were to be killed later…

Adolf returned to Warsaw after the war and wrote a diary. He published his story and the movie received the Academy Award for best foreign film in 2008, which it deserves. The DVD is available with English subtitles and an interview with the real Adolf Burger.

Highly recommended. *****

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