DVD & CD Reviews
DVD - The Counterfeiters (15)
NOMINATED for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this year, this tells the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation ever undertaken.
During the Second World War the Nazis organise a group of artistically talented Jews already in concentration camps to recreate the perfect fake currency.
The upside for those involved is a comfy bed, a good meal and the chance to feel human again while they work. The down side is that if they fail, the camp guards will have them killed, and if they succeed, they will very likely still be executed to hide the evidence of their activities.
Amongst them, Salomon Sorowitsch, a career criminal and excellent forger gets torn between his own desire to survive whatever the cost, and his conscience about what the group's success could mean for the rest of the world.
An intense look at what must have been a real question of conscience, and the awful repercussions of survivors guilt, seeing the war from a different angle, which is getting harder and harder to do.
As a viewer you're never allowed to forget what conditions are like outside the safe bubble of the counterfeiting team, or indeed how even they don't have anything resembling a normal life, but the drama really comes from the characters, all of whom are brilliantly portrayed as ordinary people thrust into the worst kind of situation.
AT
4:27pm Friday 11th April 2008
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