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The Counterfeiters

It takes a clever man to make money, it takes a genius to stay alive

I just don't fit in with these people...fo

This film won the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2008. Set during World War II, it is the tale of the world's best forger, a Jew of Russian extraction. He is arrested by the Nazis and interned, but as the war started going against Germany, they came up with a plan... They decided to weaken the US and British economies by flooding the market with fake currency. The Russian Jew was just the man to make the money. Offered a take-it-or-die deal, he set to work with a hand-picked team, producing perfect forgeries. However not everyone on his team was happy with the moral problem: by helping the Nazis, they were delaying their own freedom. In German language with English subtitles.

100 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language, Violence)
Drama, Thriller, War, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner
Director	Stefan Ruzowitzky
Screenplay	Stefan Ruzowitzky, based on the autobiographical book by Adolf Burger
Music	Marius Ruhland
Cinematography	Benedict Neuenfels
Editing	Britta Nahler
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2007
Produced by	Magnolia Filmproduktion, Babelsberg Film, Beta Cinema, Filmförderung Hamburg, Josef Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH, Zweites Deutsches Femsehen
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Infrequent, mild
Nudity	Infrequent, mild
Sex	Implied
Violence	Frequent, strong
Prejudice	Frequent, strong
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith	15
Die BurgerLaetitia Pople	15
Cape TimesNicholas Barber	15
The Citizen	16
International Media
BBC (UK)Catherine Chambers	15
eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman	10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	15
Metacritic.com23 critics	16
Internet (IMDB)8817 Netizens	15

Average .. 73%	14

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