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COUNTERFEITTERS, THE

Director:

  Stefan Ruzowitsky
  

Year Released:

  2007

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

3.5 out of 5

4 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Dolores Chaplin
  August Diehl
  Karl Markovics
  Devid Striesow
  August Zirner
Movie Haiku:Oscar-winning Holocaust drama based on a stranger-than-fiction WWII episode: Nazis mass producing counterfeit currency crafted by, you guessed it, Jewish slave labor. Markovics is excellent as the ambivalent anti-hero (a career criminal) but Jan wasn't buying the big moral speeches.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2008