Fälscher, Die (2007)

Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Genre: war, drama

This is the rare – and by that I REALLY mean rare! – case of an
Austrian movie being able to bear comparison with international
competition. "Die Fälscher" is a well-made and touching movie about the
Holocaust and a special division of Jews in a concentration camp that
survived by counterfeiting money (or pretending to do so) for the
Nazis. Karl Markovics is the shining light of the cast. Who thought
that the guy who came to greater popularity by starring in "Kommissar
Rex" would end up getting roles like this one and playing them to
perfection? August Diehl is good, too, but he comes across as a bit too
dramatic at times. The Nazis – and that's the only weakness of Stefan
Ruzowitzky's movie – are the way they always are. Ruthless, cruel,
craven and at the same time stupid pigs who do everything to humiliate
the Jews at any time. Even though, that is probably the way 99% of them
really were, it would have been more interesting to get a
differentiated view on some of th…

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