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The Counterfeiters, also known as Die Fälscher, is a 2007 German and Austrian drama, historical, and crime film directed and written by Stefan Ruzowitzky. The production was distributed by UFA and Netflix, with production companies including Babelsberg Studio, FilmFörderung Hamburg, and ZDF. The cast features Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, and Martin Brambach. Based on a work by Adolf Burger, the film is set in 1945 Berlin and depicts Operation Bernhard, World War II, and The Holocaust.
Filming took place in Monaco, Germany, and Vienna. The original languages include German, Russian, English, and Hebrew. The film has a runtime of 95 minutes, though other sources list durations of 98 and 99 minutes. It received the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Audience ratings include a 7.5 on IMDb and a 7.372 on TMDb.
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7.4The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Cast
- Karl Markovics as Sorowitsch
- August Diehl as Burger
- Devid Striesow as Herzog
- Martin Brambach as Holst
- August Zirner as Dr. Klinger
- Veit Stübner as Atze
Themes
- nazi
- concentration camp
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- sachsenhausen
- counterfeit
- based on memoir or autobiography
- german jew
- forgery
- 1940s
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Key facts
- Based on
- The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation , by Adolf Burger
- Produced by
- Josef Aichholzer [ de ] , Nina Bohlmann [ de ] , Babette Schröder [ de ]
- Starring
- Karl Markovics , August Diehl , Devid Striesow , Marie Bäumer
- Cinematography
- Benedict Neuenfels [ de ]
- Edited by
- Britta Nahler [ de ]
- Music by
- Marius Ruhland [ de ]
- Production companies
- Aichholzer Film, Magnolia Filmproduktion, Babelsberg Studio
- Distributed by
- Filmladen [ de ] (Austria), Universum Film (Germany)
- Release dates
- 22 March 2007 ( 2007-03-22 ) (Germany) 23 March 2007 ( 2007-03-23 ) (Austria)
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Countries
- Austria, Germany
- Languages
- German, Russian, English, Hebrew
- Budget
- $6.25 million
- Box office
- $20.2 million
- Directed by
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Written by
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- Austria
- Original language
- Hebrew
- Main subject
- The Holocaust
- Director
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Screenwriter
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Production company
- Babelsberg Studio
- Narrative location
- Berlin
- Filming location
- Vienna
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 737417
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.sonyclassics.com/thecounterfeiters
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- publication date
- 2007-03-22
- Commons category
- Die Fälscher
- title
- Falskmyntnerne i Sachsenhausen
- after a work by
- Adolf Burger
- characters
- Adolf Burger
- set in period
- 1945
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 78/100
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Encyclopedic overview
The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The film is based on the 1983 Czech-language memoir Komando padělatelů ("The Commando of Counterfeiters") by Adolf Burger, which was published in English as The Devil's Workshop. Burger was a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation and was later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard. Ruzowitzky consulted closely with Burger through almost every stage of the writing and production. The film won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards.
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