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Feb
24
2008

DIE FÄLSCHER / THE COUNTERFEITERS—The Greencine Interview With Stefan Ruzowitzky

Posted by Michael Guillen at 12:45pm.

Posted in Film News , Drama, Continental Europe & Russia, Toronto Film Festival 2007, Random Awards News.

As Dave Hudson has prefaced to my Greencine interview with Stefan Ruzowitzky, the director/screenwriter of The Counterfeiters (nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category), the film is based on true events: “the Nazis planned to destabilize the American and British economies by flooding the markets with fake dollars and pounds.  And they enlisted prisoners in concentration camps to counterfeit the bills.  This presents a dark dilemma to the prisoners: cooperate and survive—or sabotage the project and possibly pay with their lives.”

I first reviewed this Mephistophelian dilemma at the Toronto International, skeptical that audiences would digest this bitter fare; but, I’ve been proven wrong.  Dave Hudson has gathered the most recent reviews upon the film’s theatrical release, most of which are thoughtfully argued.

Cross-published on The Evening Class.

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Reader Comments

  1. anton_es 02/25/2008 @ 1:59am

    unbelievable that mediocre movie won an oscar. it’s really:
    No Oscar For Good Movies Year.
    but I’m glad for the director,
    austrian movie industry is pretty non-existant or extremely boring.

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