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The Counterfeiters

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The Counterfeiters
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R,1hr 39min
Genres:
Drama,War
Released:
February 22, 2008
Director:
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Classics
Starring:
Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow  ...more
Synopsis: Writer/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his creativity for more nefarious means. Arrested by the police inspector Herzog (Devid Striesow) at the onset of World War II, Sorowitsch is sent to the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp. It's not long ... Full Synopsis
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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. Full Review
Metascore
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78
Generally favorable reviews
out of 100
Based on 23 critic reviews
Featured Cast
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Karl Markovics
Salomon Sorowitsch
August Diehl
Adolf Burger
Devid Striesow
Friedrich Herzog
Martin Brambach
Holst
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Karl Markovics, left, and Dolores Chaplin in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony Pictures Classics)
August Diehl in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony Pictures Classics)
August Diehl, left, Karl Markovics, Veit Stubner and August Zirner in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony...
Karl Markovics, left, Devid Striesow and Martin Brambach in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony Pictures...
Devid Striesow, right, in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Dolores Chaplin, left, and Karl Markovics in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Karl Markovics, left, and Devid Striesow in "The Counterfeiters" (Sony Pictures Classics)
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