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Vonia The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) (2007) Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Watched: June 14, 2018 Rating: 6/10 {Clue: Adapted from a memoir by this man or Fast food favorite with fries} Behind-the-scenes of Nazi Germany's World War II Operation Bernhard- the largest counterfeiting scheme in history, Underdeveloped characters leads to difficulty empathizing,Reduced by its formulaic determination as awards season bait. Gives us moral quandaries to mull over- be a martyr sabotaging the operation and thus the lives of the entire group or assisting in the Nazi cause and indirectly perpetuating the war in order to survive? Entertaining and well-acted, with suspenseful moments and a talented Markovics leading the cast, Rated highly for its righteous themes and provoking material- but not enough to make a lasting impression. ---- Acrostic is a form of poetry where the first letters in each line, paragraph, or word are doubly used to spell a name, phrase, or word. The word "acrostic" comes from the Greek words "akros" (outermost) and "stichos" (line of verse). Read the appropriate letters in the poem vertically to reveal the extra message, called the "acrostich"! #Acrostic #PoemReview #AcademyBestForeign #German #Holocaust #WorldWarII

Aman Agarwal Wow. This film is thrilling, informative, and realistic. The cinematography is brilliant, and the movie effortlessly takes you straight to the '30s.There is so much to say, I'd say it in my blog:legendsonsilver.blogspot.com Overall, there are fantastic performances. The lead actors do justice to their roles. As for the direction, you instantly feel a classic brilliance emanating from the screen. The sets, the performances- everything breathes out of the screen. In this regard, the director does a better job than even Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie" did.

CountZero313 Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch is an expert counterfeiter whose luck runs out when he overrules his survival instinct for one more roll in the sack. Unfortunately for him, this is 1930s Germany and he will serve his time in a concentration camp rather than prison. Sally, however, treats them as one and the same, and it is his prison code of working an angle while giving others their place that sees him survive, and flourish, if such a term fits the meagre circumstances.Prison code also means never snitching, and it is this dilemma that will decide his fate.Based on a true story, The Counterfeiters leans more towards prison drama than out-and-out Holocaust movie. The horrors of the camps intrudes only occasionally - that is the guilt-ridden dilemma of these prisoners - and mostly off-screen, as when the god-forsaken 'shoe squad' march next door, and we witness one of them being executed only by virtue of the bullets that ricochet through the fence and endanger the precious forgery team. There is division in the ranks of the Jew forgers, between those who want to survive and those who want to sabotage the war effort. As the war draws to a close, their aims slowly converge.Karl Markovics excels as street-wise habitual criminal Sally. He scoffs at left-wing ideologue Burger, believing his jailbird instincts will get him through this ordeal. The wake-up call comes when he is cleaning the latrine, on his knees, and Hauptscharführer Holst, the camp's chief sadist, let's him know in no uncertain terms how he regards his contribution to the war effort, and indeed his very humanity.The film bookends its opening and closing with Sally in Monaco, having survived the war, ready to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. Needless to say, the monetary gain soon loses its allure.Well acted, technically excellent, The Counterfieters entertains rather than provokes thought, but is worth viewing nonetheless.

steve-woller Salomon Sorowitsch (superbly played by Karl Markovics) was a thriving Jewish counterfeiter in 1930s Berlin when he was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. While there, he was put in charge of an operation, set up by the SS, to duplicate foreign currency in an effort both to de-stabilize the Allies' economies and to continue funding the Nazi regime and its war effort. This activity secured for him and his fellow workers numerous privileges - additional food, more humane living conditions, an increased guarantee of safety - that were denied to the other prisoners in the camp.On the surface, "The Counterfeiters" provides us with a grim and disturbing look at life in a Nazi death camp. But, like Lina Wertmuller's "Seven Beauties," it goes much deeper than that, exploring the thorny ethical issue of just how far a human being should be willing to go to ensure his own survival. As Sorowitsch himself states, in a situation such as the one in which he finds himself, "You adapt or you perish," and he refuses to let the Nazis, or anyone else for that matter, make him feel guilty for doing what it takes to stay alive. But soon there is dissension within the ranks, as Burger (August Diehl), a political idealist who believes there's a greater cause beyond their own survival, insists the men sabotage the effort - even if that means he and all his fellow workers die as a result. Yet, thanks to the inmates' delaying tactics, only a small number of dollars were ever produced.Brilliantly acted and solidly directed (by Stefan Ruzowitzky), "The Counterfeiters" is a complex morality tale that will have you questioning your own values and examining your own conscience long after it's over.