The film revolves around Salomon Sorwich, a fraudster who has begun to face more strange paths in his life. Salomon was forced to assist the operation at the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, and then to manufacture but began to take a different route in Berlin.
Although there is nothing ground-breaking about The Counterfeiters, it tells a moving and engrossing story with depth and intelligence, and is well worth seeing.
This dark, absorbing thriller is not just a moral exercise in the awful choices faced by those determined to survive history's worst genocide. It invites us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of a not-quite-lovable rogue.
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
April 18, 2009
It's a true story of the human condition, the Holocaust and history.
Hollywood Reporter
March 14, 2008
Deft and fascinating handling of a moral quandary in a Nazi concentration camp.
Times-Picayune
September 04, 2009
2008's Oscar-winning foreign film is unquestionably good, a wholly absorbing and taut drama that is as engaging as it is powerful. But Oscar-worthy? There's room for debate.
Based on a real-life Nazi operation, the film is a tense drama with performances that elevate the movie to the front rank of films set in concentration camps.
El resultado es notable, tanto como inquietante y hasta quizás incómoda reflexión sobre el instinto de supervivencia del ser humano, y también como pieza cinematográfica.
As writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky shows, powerfully, affectingly, in The Counterfeiters, the privileges experienced by this small team of Jews and criminals came at a price.
