The Counterfeiters
24,482
Drama
Berlin in 1936. Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. Life's no more than a game to him in his world of crooks, gigolos and loose women. And the cash he needs for his gambling - he simply prints himself. But then, one day, someone blows the whistle on him; he is arrested by superintendent Herzog and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. When he is moved to Sachsenhausen in 1944, Sorowitsch fears the worst. But life has one last ... [+]
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"A flawed but fascinating film (...) And it is flawed because the moral implications of this scheme are so charged and turbulent that they defy neat resolution (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" | ||||
"'The Counterfeiters' is based on a fascinating piece of history (...) The trouble is that the storytelling and filmmaking are routine, even when the human drama is not (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" | ||||
"That it succeeds more than it fails owes something to Mr. Ruzowitsky’s skill and good sense, and even more to his lead actor’s instinct and conviction." | ||||
"Ruzowitzky's faux-doc shaky-cam zooms are less about the banality of evil than the inappropriateness of style." | ||||
"Demonstrates that no matter how many Holocaust stories the movies tell, there are always new and unexpected ones waiting to be revealed." | ||||
"Full of the weird details that, though unsurprising on one level, are so jarringly wrong that they seem fresh." |
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