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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396239203
Format: AC-3
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Running Time: 99
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, The Counterfeiters tells the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), a swindler who made a name for himself as Berlin's "King of the Counterfeiters." However, his life of women and easy money is cut short when he's arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp. With the German army on the verge of bankruptcy, Sorowitsch makes a sobering deal with his captors: in exchange for a comfortable bed, good food and fair treatment, Sorowitsch, along with the other hand-picked specialists, must counterfeit bank notes to fund the Nazi War effort. If he does as they say, he lives another day. If he rebels, he faces the same fate as the rest of the camp's prisoners. But if he lives, will he be able to live with himself?
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Summary: Great Germanic Opus
Comment: The Counterfeiters is one very good film. It's even better when one considers it is based on a true event within Nazi Germany! Jewish counterfeiters and forgers who ran afoul of the law are in a prison camp and are recruited by the Third Reich to counterfeit American and British banknotes. How this is accomplished and why it ultimately fails is carried out in detail in this film.
The film is in German, with fairly large English sub-titles. Among the extras is a queston-and-answer period with the director, who speaks near-perfect English. There are few other extras. Beautifully photographed, it was the best foreign-language Oscar winner for 2007. Very highly recommended!
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Summary: Wonderful film
Comment: Simply a wonderful film. So accurate in the human emotion and interreaction of the main characters. The end of the film, contrasting what was viewed as a horrible existance with the reality just a few feet from them is startling and horrific.
Great film.
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Summary: Holocaust Manga
Comment: First of all, the translation is awful! The English translation is often not even close to the original German. The acting is bad except for August Diehl, but the main character, Solomon Sorowitsch played by Karl Markovics, seems to have only one facial expression whatever the situation. The real, historic story about the counterfeiters is interesting, but the film doesn't do it justice. I only watched it to the bitter end, because I tried to understand why this movie got so much praise in the German press. I still don't understand. There are much better Holocaust movies. This is more like an action film that happens to play between 1933 and 1945. It has no subtlety, the characters are not developed, it feels like a manga version.
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Summary: Another Holocaust movie...?
Comment: Instead of making another depressing Holocaust film, writer/director Stefan Rozuwitzky chose to create an ensemble drama to examine the strength of conscience vs staying alive. Some names were changed, and a few facts, too, but the resulting film is devastating in its narrative. The central character, "Sally" Sorowitch (the amazing Karl Markovics) is the main character, thrown into various concentration camps, until he arrives at Sachsenhausen, where he's treated better than elsewhere. He's a master counterfeiter who is expected to help the Nazi's get money to both finance their further war effort, and destroy the economies of Britain & the US. There isn't much more to say without blabbing away plot stuff, but the screenplay is based on fellow inmate/forger Adolf Burger's memoir (played with profound sincerity by August Diehl). Burger, actually, was ready to go along with the Nazi demands, but here he's played as the conscience of the whole film. The central character of "Sally" was actually based on a man named Smolianoff (but he didn't emerge famous and ended up forging passports for Jews who wanted to go to Palestine). David Striesow should be commended for his smarmy performance as Commandant Herzog. It's hard to say more here, but I recommend this film highly, for an inside perspective. The DVD extras are super-plentiful, and director Rozuwitsky explains that many things needed to be changed for legal reasons; he also wanted to present a German film about conscience (regarding the Holocaust). The surprise Oscar winner for Foreign Language film should be seen as another lesson about what greed, power and ambivalence can to to the world at large.
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Summary: The Counterfeiters - real acting in a real story
Comment: This drama is so extraordinary especially knowing it covers a real event in an unreal time. The acting is so complete I felt I was viewing reality in intimate detail. I highly recommend this Blu-ray disc for its historical depiction and its raw entertainment value.
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