“Ruzowitsky’s film, austerely shot and scripted with terse wit, grants itself a licence to make art in exchange for entertaining us with a gripping story.”
A fictionalised account of the largest counterfeit operation in history, Operation Bernhard: the Nazi’s secret plan to destroy the British economy by flooding it with forged bank notes. Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, inhabits a morally grey world where principles are pitched against the will to survive. Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times.