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"Excellent movie about an interesting true story.", This is a pretty interesting movie. It is based on a true story. At times, especially at the beginning, it seems to jump quickly over events. It takes a little to get into the flow of the movie and feel comfortable with who the characters are. The end of the movie is a bit abrupt also. You aren't quite sure what happened to some of the main characters between the last days of the war and the ending where the main character is in a Casino in Monaco. In spite of these drawbacks, this is an interesting movie that makes you want to go out and learn more about the events it was based on.

"A Compelling Story, Strangely Told", The German-Austrian film The Counterfeiters is based on a remarkable true story. Late in World War Two the Nazis rounded up Jews who had been confined in various concentration camps and set up a large counterfeiting operation designed to undermine the British and U.S. economies. The Nazis found some 150 Jews with the necessary skills and put them together in a special section within the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, providing the latest money-making equipment, giving them plenty of food and comfortable accommodations. But the counterfeiters were constantly pressured to produce (at pain of death) and there were sadistic S.S. guards who cruelly reminded the counterfeiters that they were still in Hell.

Just outside the counterfeiters' quarters other prisoners were brutalized by the Nazis. In one incident, a group of the counterfeiters can hear a guard insulting a man as he executes him. The bullets fly through the very wooden wall next to which they are standing.

It's an important and compelling story. But much of the film was shot with a hand-held that often awkwardly jumps from actor to actor in prolonged scenes. In one of the DVD special features writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky asserted that he was trying to create a documentary effect. I think he failed at this. It all comes off as too contrived.

The main character is Saloman "Sally" Sorowitsch, portrayed very energetically by Karl Markovics. Sally is a very clever, tough, wily man who jerkily moves about like a bantam rooster surrounded by mean foxes. His eyes dart from tormentor to tormentor. Too much eye-darting, if such a thing is possible. Markovics likes to strike a pose, as do the other key players, both victims and tormentors. They are quite good at striking poses, but enough is enough.

I recommend the audio commentary by Ruzowitzky. He addresses some of the things I wondered about, like the sometimes bizarre soundtrack. The interview given by Adolf Burger is very touching. Now in his nineties, he is a survivor of the counterfeiters. Burger was a consultant on the film. He has devoted decades of his life to keeping the memory of the Holocaust and the counterfeiting operation alive.

Although this film received the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, I would not rate it so highly. It just did not seem "genuine," somewhat like a good counterfeit.

"an amazing more or less true story", Until watching this movie, I had no idea that the largest counterfeiting operation of all time was carried out by prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. They were assigned to forge pounds and dollars, in order to undermine the Allied economy and finance the Nazi war effort. They ended up printing over 100 million pounds sterling, which even the Bank of England could not distinguish from the genuine article. On the other hand, as a result of stalling tactics, they didn't crack the dollar until the war was almost over and it no longer made any difference.

This movie is a fictionalized version of this story. Prisoners with relevant skills are brought in to a special, top-secret area in a concentration camp, where in contrast to the appalling conditions elsewhere, they are provided with sufficient food, decent beds, time for breaks, etc. But if they don't produce results, they will be shot. Sorowich, a master counterfeiter, is brought in to take charge of the counterfeiting operation. Burger, one of the other workers on the operation, wants to sabotage the operation, so as to hamper the Nazi war effort. This view is not popular among the other workers, who do not feel like dying for this cause, just so that other workers can be brought in to do the job for them. Much of the movie is a dramatization of this moral argument. The end result is to delay the production of the dollar just enough. The protagonist is Sorowich, who initially just wants to save his skin, and also has a personal longing to crack the dollar, but eventually sort of comes around to the other point of view.

The movie is very well done. The acting is excellent, especially the actors who play Sorowich, and Herzog, the boss of the concentration camp. One is really immersed in the concentration camp, which is quite scary, although not nearly as gruesome as it could be since we are in the elite section.

The bonus features are worth watching and tell more about the true story on which the movie is based. For example, in reality, only two people knew about the sabotage, unlike in the movie where for dramatic purposes lots of people knew about it so that they could argue about it on screen.

"Riveting movie, but...........................", This was a riveting movie. The will to live and survive cast the tormnetors and the tormented in the same boat.

But the fragmented English subtiles spoils. Whoever did them did not know Englsh or was a sleep at the wheel. Many portions are without substitles. When they do appear, they are in bits and pieces, making them meaningless, ruining the enjoyment of the film.
Sellers should check out the DVD instead of making customers the quailty controllers.

"Great Germanic Opus", 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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"The Counterfeiters - real acting in a real story", 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.

"Untold story-great characters,loved the "artifacts" extras", PQ/AQ 4/5.I am 1/2 German and unfortunately heard about the time period in which my mom grew up in, when she was a little girl. Many German people risked their lives helping Jewish people who were unjustly persecuted. This film showed yet another side of this inhuman time period, and it was an engaging portrayal of the economic plot happening behind the scenes of the bombs and atrocities. With humor and a contant edge of fear, this film tells an incredible story of what happens when a group of people is asked to compromise all ethics to survive. The "artifacts" extras are very interesting and the film is not to be missed for its relevance. Thoroughly enjoyed-highly recommended.

"Incredible Acting...Even More Incredible Story", There are hundreds of movies about the Holocaust and most of them detail the unbelievable horrors of totalitarianism and racism. What makes this film stand apart is that it gives us a story of morally complex individuals who don't have the luxury of making easy choices between good and evil.

Imagine, if you will, being given a chance at life, even a tolerably good life, in the bowels of Hell. But in order to live, you have to betray all those fighting to end that evil, brutal world. A few select men in the Sachsenhausen camp are given that choice...and (according to the film) they choose to live, even if some will become morally bankrupt in doing so. The most interesting personality of course, is the main protoganist - the best counterfeiter in Germany - who is a Jew (yes) but also a criminal type. According to his code of honor, which he translates into the concentration camp, a person may fake millions of bank notes to help the German regime continue to oppress, but one cannot squeal or compromise another prisoner - whatever the reason. The counterfeiter even secretly relishes the idea of accomplishing the impossible...heading the most daring money forgery operation in human history. Opposing him is a Russian idealist who believes that he must, absolutely must, sabotage the operation in order to bring the Nazi regime down. I was absolutely thrilled by Karl Marcovich's performance - subtle, nuanced, ruthless, and at times heart-breakingly compassionate. To those wary of seeing another Holocaust film, I say, this one's different...go see it.

"The Counterfeiters - Blu-ray Info", Version: U.S.A / Region-A
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 1:38:54
Movie size: 26,53 GB
Disc size: 35,88 GB
Average video bit rate: 27.93 Mbps

Dolby TrueHD Audio French 1616 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1616kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps)
Dolby TrueHD Audio German 1565 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1565kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps

Subtitles: English / English SDH / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 16

#Audio Commentary
#The Making of The Counterfeiters (SD, German, 10 min.)
#Director Stefan Ruzowitzky Interview (SD, English, 18 min.)
#Writer Adolf Burger Interview (SD, German, 10 min.)
#Actor Karl Markovics Interview (SD, English, 10 min.)
#Adolph Burger's Artifacts (SD, German, 20 min.)
#Q&A with Director Stefan Ruzowitzky (SD, English, 13 min.)
#Deleted Scenes (SD, German, 4 min.)
#Theatrical Trailer (SD, 2 min.)
#BD-Live

From Back Cover:

This film employs a variety of film stocks and grain structures in order to tell the story. This intentional visual style has been retained for this high definition presentation, as per the filmmaker's intent.

"The CounterfeitersI", I purchased this movie because a friend of mine is the son of a master engraver who created the forged British banknotes during WWII. When I saw the movie I was quite surprised with its involvement with the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. The engraver that I knew about was a German civilian. Nevertheless, the DVD contains an interview with the Russian engraver who was the main character in this verson of the story of this counterfeiting operation. It is my conjecture that the task of the German Government in this project was too important to their economy to perform the forgery in only one location or facility. This movie portrays a most unusual take on life in a German concentration camp, Sachsenhausen. The creation of an elite group of master engravers to carry out this operation was totally exceptional to expected camp life. Instead of fear of the guards, poor food or starvation, and bad quarters, these prisoners were given good civilian clothes probably taken from others who were less fortunate. They slept on beds with cotton sheets, and ate high quality food. They had classical music played on the phonograph while they worked at their printing tasks. While the story was a good story dealing with the tensions between prisoners from differing ethnic, social, and political backgrounds (The villian was a communist who tried to sabotage operations). This makes a good plot for a movie, but from another friend of mine who had been in the Dachau Camp, the prisoners were sorted into four categories; common criminals, political prisoners (my friend), prisoners who were candidates for ethnic cleansing, and finally the insane, crippled, or medically defective individuals. They wore a distinctive uniform peculiar to each category, and probably did not mix very much socially. The Russian engraver fitted the criminal category well and had been arrested for forging passports and travel papers. The movie had minor technical problems. The printing equipment used was not of sufficient quality to print bank notes. A scene of the prisoners dancing in celebration used dance movements appropriate to the 1960's. Nevertheless, the movie portrayed a very believeable story of a technical secret operation of the German Government that is closely held even today.
Roger Kenneth Lee