The Counterfeiters

The 2007 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film, The Counterfeiters, or Die Falscher, is the fictionalized account of Operation Bernhard, a counterfeiting plot by the Nazis to destabilize the British economy. Using Jewish prisoners in concentration camps, the Nazis were able to create counterfeit Bank of England pound notes.

The movie focuses on the fictional character of Salomon Sorowitsch, a Jewish counterfeiter who goes from jail to the concentration camps where he is eventually tapped to head Operation Bernhard. The movie follows his journey from being concerned solely with his own survival to being concerned with his fellow prisoners to being concerned with sabotaging the Nazi war effort.

Intriguing in its portrayal of actual events, the movie does not pack so much of an emotional punch as a weary horror.