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The Counterfeiters
from Sony Pictures

Features:

• AC-3
• Color
• Dolby
• Dubbed

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Better than expected
  Found this movie for $5 at the video store--a 'gem' at that price. The story of the Nazis forcing concentration camp inmates to forge foreign currency to bankrupt England was compelling. The 'dilemma' the characters face of doing good work and enjoying more comfortable survival, or sabbotaging their captors efforts, drives the film. The special features include a Q&A with the Director where a lot of great information is told about what happened to the characters after the War.

• Too grainy & shaking
  The story is interesting and the presentation is fine, but for two things that it is worth only 3 stars to me:
  1. too much grainy effect on the video quality that it seems only marginal improvement over DVD ver, which I happened to have bought earlier, and the comparison of two tells no big difference. It is said to be the director's intent to make it look like old style movie, but too much would ruin what made us buy the BR version instead of the DVD. The DVD version in 480p is truely what the... more info

• Excellent movie about an interesting true story.
  This is a pretty interesting movie. It is based on a true story. At times, especially at the beginning, it seems to jump quickly over events. It takes a little to get into the flow of the movie and feel comfortable with who the characters are. The end of the movie is a bit abrupt also. You aren't quite sure what happened to some of the main characters between the last days of the war and the ending where the main character is in a Casino in Monaco. In spite of these drawbacks, this is an interesting movie... more info

• A Compelling Story, Strangely Told
  The German-Austrian film The Counterfeiters is based on a remarkable true story. Late in World War Two the Nazis rounded up Jews who had been confined in various concentration camps and set up a large counterfeiting operation designed to undermine the British and U.S. economies. The Nazis found some 150 Jews with the necessary skills and put them together in a special section within the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, providing the latest money-making equipment, giving them plenty of food and comfortable... more info

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