1. THE COUNTERFEITERS
Director: Stefan Ruzowitsky
Year: 2007
Year: 2007
Awards/Recognition:
Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film Winner
Summary:
The film tells the story of Operation Bernhard. Solomon Sorowitsch is known as the King of Counterfeiters, and his talent has been forced by the Nazi in an attempt to produce millions of British bank notes. After the successful forgery of the currency, Sorowitsch, together with his fellow Jew prisoners who all have training with painting and printing, is caught up in their moral and physical survival as they are this time being forced by the Nazis to forge American dollars.
Snatching an OSCAR for a Best Foreign Language Film almost says it is the best film in the world without the Hollywood rivalry, but I am extremely disappointed with the film. The heartlessness of a supposedly deeply and emotionally charged human experience violated all the creative and spiritual hallows I keep. The film is generally directionless, unexciting, and everything else is just so out of place, incoherent, and the part where Solomon has attracted a French woman petrified by his Nazi camp mark on his arm, is just a waste of time and money. It didn’t help at all. The rawness in the cinematography (particularly camera movement) is so irrelevant for me. The hand held shots and the amateurish zoom in and zoom out effects are worse than the ‘dementors’ of Azkaban in Harry Potter’s world. The larger than life story of this Operation Bernhard and the dumbfound potential of an Jewish artist in a concentration camp to become a film I expected it to be has just been thrown in a garbage dump site deeper than the recorded depth of trash New Yorkers has ever produced since the 1960s. Don’t watch this film. I suggest you just look at some stills, it looks real imposing anyway! A real deceiving film.
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