Dec-11 10:15p.m. SBS1-TV: Movie: The Counterfeiters
Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is an expert Jewish counterfeiter enjoying the good life until he’s sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Sally manages to survive for five years before transfer to Sachsenhausen, where he is assigned to produce perfect forgeries of British and US banknotes for the Third Reich. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2008. Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and stars Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow and August Diehl. (In German, English subtitles) (Drama) (2007) (Class tba) WS