Austro-German film
Original version in German with French subtitles.
The story is inspired by Operation Bernhard, a Nazi secret operation during the Second World War to print and flood Britain with fake pound sterling.
The story was taken from the memoirs of Adolf Burger, a Slovak Jewish printer involved in Operation Bernhard who survived the Holocaust.
Film director: Stefan Ruzowitzky.
Duration: 98 minutes.
Audience: 16 years +
Film summary: Berlin 1936: Solomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, an exceptional forger, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. In 1942, he leaves Mauthausen and is sent to supervise a team of Jewish printers, illustrators, bankers and typographers in the Sachsenhausen camp to make counterfeit notes (pounds sterling and dollars). The group is then torn between the desire to save their skin by collaborating and that of sabotaging the Nazi operation.
Director
Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Austrian film director and scriptwriter. He studied drama and art history at the University of Vienna. His film "The Counterfeiters" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.
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