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Synopsis

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times: over £130 million in British currency was printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

Film Information

• Genre: Crime / Drama / War
• Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
• Written By: Stefan Ruzowitzky Adolf Burger
• Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, and Devid Striesow
• Running Time: 98 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for some strong violence, brief sexuality/nudity and language
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, The Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics, an Austrian TV actor with a pugnacious anvil of a head, is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor."

   - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"This poses some tricky moral questions, and its troubling ambiguities rank a cut above the dubious uplift of"

   - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"Swift and compelling, winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign-language picture, The Counterfeiters may not be destined for the large international audience that embraced last year's winner,"

   - Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

"Some movies rest on an actor's face, and The Counterfeiters has a great one."

   - Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"Quiet, watchful, out for himself, Sorowitsch is a complicated figure - neither hero nor villain, and certainly no fool. The Austrian actor Markovics is riveting in the role; he is wiry, anticipatory, his eyes darting with intelligence and worry."

   - Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Showtimes

• Wednesday, April 23rd
  7:00 pm
• Thursday, April 24th
  9:30 pm
• Friday, April 25th
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Saturday, April 26th
  4:30 pm, 9:30 pm
• Sunday, April 27th
  4:30 pm
• Monday, April 28th
  4:30 pm, 9:30 pm
• Tuesday, April 29th
  4:30 pm
• Thursday, May 1st
  4:30 pm
• Friday, May 2nd
  9:15 pm
• Saturday, May 3rd
  2:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Sunday, May 4th
  7:00 pm
• Monday, May 5th
  4:30 pm
• Tuesday, May 6th
  9:15 pm