St. Louis - The Counterfeiters (Die Falscher)

Genre: War, Drama

Release Date: 2/22/2008

Running Time: 98 mins

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit StÃ¼bner, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Andreas Schmidt, Tilo PrÃ¼ckner and Lenn Kudrjawizki

Producer: Josef Aichholzer, Nina Bohlmann and Babette SchrÃ¶der

Writer: Adolf Burger and Stefan Ruzowitzky

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

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The Counterfeiters (Die Falscher)

When an Austrian filmmaker who makes no secret of the fact that his grandparents were Nazi sympathizers makes a fact-based movie (nominated by the Academy for best foreign film) about a Jewish forger who survived the concentration camps by printing money for the German war effort, is he a brave boy or a rotten apple falling unpleasantly close to his nation's tarnished tree? Viennese actor Karl Markovics gives a masterful portrayal of Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, a shifty-eyed, hatchet-faced criminal Jew, but The Counterfeiters plays like a realist drama made to spring Sorowitsch from stereotype and expose him as a flawed man torn between his Darwinian credo (adapt) and a fatherly desire to protect the weak. Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky keeps the physical brutality peripheral, in part to underscore the predicament of the counterfeiters, who live in a velvet prison next door to the hell that other inmates suffer. Based on a memoir by Adolf Burger (August Diehl), a Communist inmate who opposed Sorowitsch's collusion and advocated sabotage, the film succumbs to a heroic climax of sorts. But at its best — and queasiest — The Counterfeiters asks what counts as moral behavior under fascism and whether one's first duty is to survive. - Ella Taylor

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Plaza Frontenac Cinema

1701 S Lindbergh Blvd.

Frontenac, MO 63131

314-995-6285

(1:15 PM), (3:50 PM), 7:00 PM, 9:45 PM

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