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The Counterfitters

Director: Alex Gibney

Location	Date and Time
Landmark's Clay Theater 2261 Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA 94115 map cross street: Clay district: Pacific Heights	Fri Feb 29 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 ) Sat Mar 1 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 ) Sun Mar 2 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 ) Mon Mar 3 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 ) Tue Mar 4 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 ) Show All Dates Hide All Dates Wed Mar 5 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 ) Thu Mar 6 ((2:20 4:40) 7:00 9:30 )

Description

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), 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: over £130 million in British currency was printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. (Fully subtitled)

MPAA Rating:
R

Run Time:
1hr 39mins

Release Year:
2007

Country Of Origin:
Germany