The counterfeiters [a BLU-RAY] / a Sony Pictures Classics release, a production of Aichholzer Filmproduktion and Magnolia Filmproduktion in association with Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures/Babelsberg Film and ZDF ; producers, Josef Aichholzer, Nina Bohlmann, Babette Schröder ; written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
Based on the book "Des Teufels Werkstatt : im Fälscherkommando des KZ Sachsenhausen" by Adolf Burger. Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Marie Bäumer, Martin Brambach, Dolores Chaplin.
Summary:
Based on the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, an expert counterfeiter in Berlin who is arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp, but then is recruited to counterfeit bank notes to fund a nearly bankrupt German government in exchange for fair treatment.
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