The Counterfeiters

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Friday, 09 May 2014: The Counterfeiters

Friday, 09 May 2014, 20:00

Venue: (see Locations and Tickets for further details)

Programme category: Forest Row Film Society


Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky, Austria/Germany 2007, 98 mins, 15

Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, this is a true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936 and employing prisoners in a concentration camp, in an effort to weaken Allied economies. A tense drama with a morally challenging twist.

Further reading

  1. Time Out
  2. Eye for Film
  3. Empire

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