The movie is book-ended with a sequence in Monte ... It’s absolutely toxic yet Sorowitsch takes it as a challenge — both to his counterfeiting skills and his skills at staying alive.

Sally Sorowitsch, the focus of director-screenwriter Stefan Ruzowitzkys The Counterfeiters, had hardly been innocent prior to being taken to the camps. He was a wheeler and dealer a loan shark, ...

the Austrian drama " The Counterfeiters , " one local movie-goer remarked that it just didn't feel like an Oscar film. There might be room for debate there, but it is a difficult statement to ...

Karl Markovics, left, Devid Striesow and Martin Brambach in the Oscar-winning film 'The Counterfeiters,' landing on DVD today (Aug. 5). While the summer movie landscape has been less than ...

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(Soundbite of movie, "The Counterfeiters") Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): (As character) (Speaking foreign language). Mr. MONDELLO: There on the desk is a surprise: the master forger's latest ...

The Counterfeiters portrays its concentration ... and there is room in the narrative of history for every single one of them. A movie that bears witness to the full, flawed humanity of Holocaust ...

The Counterfeiters tells the story of one such criminal, Salomon Sorowitsch (whose name in real life was Smolianoff), a forger so skilled that when he ends up in a German concentration camp during ...

The movie is based on a memoir by Adolf Burger (now in his 90s and living in Prague) about his own involvement with the Nazis’ real counterfeiting effort, Operation Bernhard. Played in the movie ...

The 10-minute “Making of The Counterfeiters” — in German with ... tale of survival is perhaps even more fascinating than the movie’s main character. Highlights of the 20-minute feature ...

It’s not unusual for a film with a Holocaust theme to win an Oscar, but Austria’s “The Counterfeiters” shows that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, new and unexpected ...