| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Won | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Austria. |
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)
Nazis force their Jewish prisoners inside a concentration camp to make counterfeit money. Karl Markovics is the de facto leader of the group, who get special privileges inside the camp. After they successfully duplicate the English pound, they set their sights on the dollar. However, one of them is deliberately sabotaging their work. Markovics at first bends to the will of the Nazis, but eventually comes around to the support of the resistor and is able to stall the operation all the way to the end of the war. The impact of the film is severely diminished by the use of a trendy "shaky cam" style, and frequently looks as if shot by amateurs who have never held a camera in their life.
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