The Counterfeiters

Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: February 22, 2008

7.9	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 45 Ratings

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RolandB.May 12, 2008

note to entertainment weekly: doesn't take sides....? guessed we watched a different movie. personally i thought this was your brand name holocaust movie with all the tricks we are used to implemented to manipulate us and make us sad note to entertainment weekly: doesn't take sides....? guessed we watched a different movie. personally i thought this was your brand name holocaust movie with all the tricks we are used to implemented to manipulate us and make us sad without offering anything innovative or new to say about the already well explored subject.… Expand

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MarcK.Apr 14, 2008

Nothing new. Doesn't break any new ground. Rather predictable. If you've seen "Schindler's List" or "The Pianist," you've seen this one.

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FilipeNetoMay 19, 2021

This film addresses a real situation that happened in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II: wishing to flood the Allies' economy with counterfeit notes and thus destroy their financial systems, the Germans decide to forciblyThis film addresses a real situation that happened in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II: wishing to flood the Allies' economy with counterfeit notes and thus destroy their financial systems, the Germans decide to forcibly recruit the best Jewish counterfeit experts , led by Solomon Sorowitsch, one of the best counterfeiters that Germany had at the time. The film shows the group's efforts to comply with the demands of its captors, while trying to stay alive and boycott German plans.

The film is truly well done and addresses a story that few know and deserved to pass to the cinema. Stefan Ruzowitzky's direction does very well with his work but fails to convey emotion to a film that, without a sense of danger and a certain fear, looks very much like a dramatization for documentary. In fact, the film is not able to make us feel the danger that the characters are in, and it explores very little the whole surreal situation in which this group of prisoners finds themselves: they may be no more than a group of prisoners, but the Reich needs them.

The cast does what it needs to do, but I didn't feel that it really wanted to go any further. Karl Markovics is the actor who most stands out for the centrality of his character, but he was not able to surprise, in a character who is capable of being really rude, arrogant and very little empathic. August Diehl also has a central character in the plot and works well on paper and shows some very welcome feeling.

Technically, it is a discreet film, betting on building a good scenario and using a set of costumes very well done to be able to recreate the atmosphere in the fields. It also has a regular cinematography, which fulfills its role well, but does not go beyond what is required, and good effects.… Expand

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