The love that I have for WWII movies has increased through the years. Any docs about Nazis, odd things in the field during the war are really grabbing me these days. I would highly recommend renting The Counterfeiters. I'm pretty sure this won a Best Picture Oscar for Foreign Film last year. It's a really amazing true story about how the Nazi's during WWII rounded up a group of Jewish artists and printers in a concentration camp and made them make counterfeit bills for all the other countries so that it would drive the value of that countries currency down during the war. It was called Operation Bernhard at the time.
The main focus of the film is master Jewish countefieter Salomon Sorowitsch, played perfect by Karl Markovics. He then meets the other counterfeiters in the camp ala Dirty Dozen. The performances are spot on as is the writing and directing by Stefan Ruzowitzky. The only other film I had seen by Ruzowitzky was the horror movie Anatomy. This is a major upgrade for him. Operation Bernhard was the largest counterfeiting outfit of all time. I am a WWII and Nazi movie nut, so if you like those kind of flicks, this is a welcome addition to the genre.
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