Harrowing film about the choice they had to make between funding the German war effort and ensuring their own survival.

I recently read Art Spiegelman's 'Maus', which was a similar tale of survival by any means necessary in the worst of times. The central performances were excellent, and it is a well told angle on one man's journey through the holocaust.

There are certain things I really like in this film (the directing for example), but there are also certain things I really hate. I'm attracted to the story, but the character fail to convince me and care for them. The things I hate are to hard to ignore, otherwise this would be a great movie.

Boring.

I barely even noticed the film was in German, and I don't even take German.

The movie is most impressive in the way it makes the viewer feel the moral dilemma of being a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp forced to collaborate with them. It takes it's time, but it's strength is how well it's makes the viewer think about what his choices would have been in such a situation.

Being a film about WW2, it wasn't as touching or upsetting as some of the other films I've seen. Nevertheless, I found the story about these Jewish prisoners in a Nazi prisoner camp making counterfeit money for the Nazi's quite interesting. The underlying question is one of morality. Do you make the counterfeit money as perfect as you can to save your own skin? Or do you sabotage the process to save those of others? I'd like to think that I would have done the latter, but I kind of doubt it...

The script is unfortunate. However the directing and acting are good, and the production team does the best it can with the script they've got to work with. The ending was poor. What he does at the very end, did that really happen? If not, why add it? The true story is compelling enough. Still, it's probably one of the better WWII concentration camp films, at least since Jakob the Liar.

"Given the relatively intricate moral algebra, it's unfortunate that Ruzowitzky's images are too frequently monotonous and limiting." - Bill Weber

A bunch of Jewish KZ interns during WWII are singled out because they're good at printing or counterfeiting, and put to work financing the Nazi war effort by printing fake pounds and dollars. If they're successful, they're a powerful nazi weapon. If they fail, they'll get killed. Slightly predictable but very worthy drama.

Great story. A movie that you can watch multiple times and still enjoy. I found it fascinating.

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