The Counterfeiters (2008)
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- Synopsis
- 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....
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- Director(s)
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Classics
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 98 min.
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Critic Reviews
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
Without doing anything so divisive as taking sides, The Counterfeiters pays sympathetic attention to those who play their cards to win even when the rules are terrible, not least because the remarkable Markovics, an Austrian TV actor with a pugnacious anvil of a head, is so riveting as an unsaintly survivor.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
Some movies rest on an actor's face, and The Counterfeiters has a great one.Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | David WiegandAdd Critic to Favorites
Well made, provocative and compelling.Read the full review
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