TV Guide: Stefan Karl

Video: The Counterfeiters

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:59 -0500

Synopsis: Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is the true story of Nazi Germany's counterfeiting operation, creating fake dollars and pound notes during WWII - but the gifted Jewish prisoner forgers face intense moral challenges.

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AOL Moviefone — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:29:46 -0500

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 before Salomon's thinly veiled opportunism earns him a relatively comfortable position as the camp's resident sketch artist, and five years later he is mysteriously swept away to Sachsenhausen. Upon arriving at the camp, Sorowitsch discovers that Herzog, now a commandant, is attempting to destabilize the economies of the Allies while simultaneously funding the Nazi war machine by assembling a special team of counterfeit artists to create millions in fraudulent pounds and dollars. As the operati

Video: 'The Counterfeiters' - Trailer No 1

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:03:13 -0500

Video: The Counterfeiters

Apple Trailers — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:22:31 -0500

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. Over 130 million pound sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn t have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. Operation Bernhard was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan: professional printe