The Counterfeiters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwr9nCurEEQ

Over the vacation, I watched The Counterfeiters, a remarkable German movie about World War II. Even though the movie is entirely in German, this element did not hinder my appreciation of this foreign masterpiece. The movie describes the story of Solomon Sorowitsch, a Jewish counterfeiter, who is sent to a concentration camp during the reign of the Third Reich. There, the Nazi's exploit his exceptional counterfeiting talent and he becomes one of the most important people to the success of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to forge the British pound and the American dollar and then, from a plane, drop millions and millions worth of money into these countries, as to make the dollar and the pound worthless. The movie follows Solomon and his participation in this form of economic warfare and underlines his inner conflict as he is torn in between his desire to stay alive, and therefore helping the Nazis, and the part of him that knows what the right thing to do is: to sabotage the money and put an end to a bankrupt regime's last attempt at a financial recovery. This exciting plot will keep you at the edge of your seat and this movie accurately depicts the horrors of the concentration camps, though not too vivid and graphic, as films like Alain Resnais' Night and Fog were, and shows how the prisonners of these camps were victim to dehumanizing attitudes and cruel acts on the behalf of the inhumane Nazi officials. I recommend this movie, especially if you are interested in the Holocaust and second World War.