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| Directed by | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Written by | Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Based on | The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Adolf Burger |
| Produced by | Josef Aichholzer Nina Bohlmann Babette Schröder |
| Starring | Karl Markovics August Diehl Devid Striesow |
| Cinematography | Benedict Neuenfels |
| Edited by | Britta Nahler |
| Music by | Marius Ruhland |
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| Distributed by | Filmladen (Austria) Universum Film (Germany) |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Countries | Austria Germany |
| Languages | German Russian English Hebrew |
| Budget | $6.25 million[1] |
| Box office | $20.2 million[1] |
The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The film is based on the 1983 Czech-language memoir Komando padělatelů ("The Commando of Counterfeiters") by Adolf Burger, which was published in English as The Devil's Workshop. Burger was a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation and was later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard.[2] Ruzowitzky consulted closely with Burger through almost every stage of the writing and production. The film won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards.
- ^ a b "Die Fälscher".
- ^ "The Counterfeiters Tell Their Tale". Aish.com. 24 May 2008. Retrieved 7 July 2014.