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The Counterfeiters is a gripping account of one prisoner's moral dilemma, superbly portrayed by Karl Markovics.
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It's details like that-too bizarre not to be true-that give "The Counterfeiters" its bitter wallop. It's an astonishing tale of cunning, compromise and survival. Feb 6, 2018 | Full Review…
It's details like that-too bizarre not to be true-that give "The Counterfeiters" its bitter wallop. It's an astonishing tale of cunning, compromise and survival.
David Ansen
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. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Steven Rea
The winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign-language film puts devils, as well as angels, on the head of the pin. Jun 8, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign-language film puts devils, as well as angels, on the head of the pin.
Paul Byrnes
This Oscar-winning film ranks as the most unnerving, disturbing, true-life account yet of endurance under Nazi oppression. Jun 8, 2008 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
This Oscar-winning film ranks as the most unnerving, disturbing, true-life account yet of endurance under Nazi oppression.
Jim Schembri
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. Apr 24, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
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.
Roger Moore
The Counterfeiters, written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies. Apr 13, 2008 | Full Review…
The Counterfeiters, written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies.
Jonathan F. Richards
While it is compulsively watchable, I never felt that the moral complexities were explored to their fullest extent. Jul 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
While it is compulsively watchable, I never felt that the moral complexities were explored to their fullest extent.
Matthew Lucas
Is this how we confront evil in 2007, not by documenting it faithfully or fighting it openly, but instead by blaming its victims for their victimhood? Aug 7, 2018 | Full Review…
Is this how we confront evil in 2007, not by documenting it faithfully or fighting it openly, but instead by blaming its victims for their victimhood?
Sarah Manvel
What makes this film a must-see is Markovics, who plays Saloman. Not just his performance, but his face-a long, dour, hound-dog face that suggests a cosmic shrug, splitting the difference between resignation and resistance. Nov 29, 2017 | Full Review…
What makes this film a must-see is Markovics, who plays Saloman. Not just his performance, but his face-a long, dour, hound-dog face that suggests a cosmic shrug, splitting the difference between resignation and resistance.
Brian D. Johnson
The breathtaking performances and superb style earned The Counterfeiters the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Aug 28, 2017 | Full Review…
The breathtaking performances and superb style earned The Counterfeiters the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Diane Carson
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. Mar 22, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
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.
Hannah Brown
Sally Sorowitsch is the little gangster who outsmarts the big gangsters. What could be more gratifying than that? Apr 28, 2011 | Full Review…
Sally Sorowitsch is the little gangster who outsmarts the big gangsters. What could be more gratifying than that?
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