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The Counterfeiters
Directed by
Stefan Ruzowitzky
R
2008
1h 38m
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The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
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The Counterfeiters Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
It's details like that-too bizarre not to be true-that give "The Counterfeiters" its bitter wallop. It's an astonishing tale of cunning, compromise and survival.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
As writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky shows, powerfully, affectingly, in The Counterfeiters, the privileges experienced by this small team of Jews and criminals came at a price.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
The Counterfeiters, written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
[Director Ruzowitzky] moves The Counterfeiters along at a fast clip that covers a lot of ground in an hour and a half.
Washington Post
Adam Bernstein
Based on a real-life Nazi operation, the film is a tense drama with performances that elevate the movie to the front rank of films set in concentration camps.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Is this the last word on the Holocaust? No. But nothing is. And nothing ever should be.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Turns out to be just as challenging and effective a political drama as Persepolis and 4 Months.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
slick, exciting, emotionally trenchant - well done all around.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
The film does shed light an another facet of Nazi history, and it does it with an attention to the complexity of human nature that makes it worthy of its Oscar win.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
The moral conundrum at the heart of Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters is worthy of Kafka or Dostoevsky.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Skillful, absorbing.
Chicago Sun-Times
Jim Emerson
The trouble is that the storytelling and filmmaking are routine (surely faux-documentary handheld camerawork is the most overused cliche in modern movies), even when the human drama is not.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It is a mark of the filmmaking and storytelling intelligence of The Counterfeiters that Ruzowitzky neither pours on the melodrama nor plays coy with the reality of things.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor.
The New Yorker
David Denby
The Counterfeiters is a testament to guile. [Director] Ruzowitzky scored the picture with tangos, and the tangos are meant to be Sally's music -- seductive, insolent, triumphant.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Full of chilling, ironic details.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky tells [this story] with cool wit and subtle tension.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Like most films about the Holocaust, The Counterfeiters, a brisk, tough movie from the Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a survivor's tale.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
[Star Karl] Markovics largely rescues the film with his mesmerizingly layered, steady performance as a man who solves the problem of compromise by refusing to admit that he's compromising.
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