7/10. A powerful, intense film. The focus on the counterfeiting operation (and the thriller-like aspect of this storyline) by moving the camps largely ‘off-stage’ acts to intensify the impact and appreciation of their horrors. Rather than simple choices and obvious moralizing we are confronted with ambiguity and complexity, above all in the form of the central character Sally Sorowitsch. The result is one of the best ‘fictional’ films to be made about the holocaust, vastly superior to the crude cliches and trivial sententiousness of the likes of Schindler’s list.
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
Schindler’s list: that old chestnut. Thought the start of Counterfeiters was an arthouse cliché max-out with a guy wandering slowly off a beach, heavy ‘sign-posting’ of “War Over” headlines and moody music, but you’re right and it warmed-up to being a stylish film.
Sure, but I don’t think the opening was overdone to the point of being hammy and it set the film up quite reasonably for what was to come.