The Counterfeiters - Preview
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DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Making of the Counterfeiters; Interview with Adolf Burger, upon whose memoirs the film is based; Interview with director Stefan Ruzowitzky; Interview with lead actor Karl Markovics; Adolf Burger’s artefacts; Deleted scenes; Theatrical trailer.
THE Counterfeiters is the true story of the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pounds sterling of fake currency was printed, under conditions that couldn’t have been more tragic or spectacular.
The film tells the story of Salomon Sorowitsch – counterfeiter, bohemian and playboy. Salomon’s philandering ways were brought to an abrupt end in Berlin, 1936, when he is caught red-handed working on his most ambitious forgery yet – the Dollar.
Then, in the dying days of World War II, the Nazi’s hatch an audacious plan to save their failing war effort and sink the economies of their enemies.
The Counterfeiters has gone on to be one of the biggest independent movie releases of 2007, and opened to rave reviews by the national critics.
Out on DVD from March 17, with all new exclusive special features, The Counterfeiters is one of the most exciting and compelling DVD releases of 2008.
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Counterfeiters trivia
1) The Counterfeiters (German title Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian/German film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It stars Karl Markovics, August Diehl and Devid Striesow.
2) It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize the UK by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England currency.
3) It’s based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation, and later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard.
4) The film won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008 for Austria.
Watch the trailer and interview