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By Gene Seymour (406) for Newsday (2,345) on 21 Feb 2008

[Director] Ruzowitzky wisely knows he doesn't have to be overly emphatic in orchestrating the tension of both the moral conundrum and the always…

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By Joe Lozito (463) for Big Picture Big Sound (482) on 21 Feb 2008

The fascinating, unsentimental true story of a group of concentration camp prisoners forced to help the Nazis perpetrate the largest counterfeiting…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 21 Feb 2008

Ruzowitzky's faux-doc shaky-cam zooms are less about the banality of evil than the inappropriateness of style…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Feb 2008

From an historical perspective, the story is interesting because it shows a different side of the war than what we're used to observing in…

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By Raphaela Weissman (6) for New York Press (561) on 20 Feb 2008

[Director] Ruzowitzky's straightforward approach to this unusual story and cinematographer Benedict Neunfels's documentary-style immediacy…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 16 Feb 2008

Based on actual events, this is a dramatic war movie that shows the inner conflict at work in a group of prisoners stuck in an ethical quandary…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Movie Insider (1) on 31 Jan 2008

This is a gripping account of psychological turmoil that's also intellectually challenging…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 24 Jan 2008

A story of high risk and equally high principles in which life and death balances on the scale of usefulness to the cause of barbaric madmen…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 23 Jan 2008

Though similar to Schindler's List, this riveting Holocaust drama, also based on a true story, features actors who throw themselves wholly…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 23 Jan 2008

Ruzowitzky honors all the talent with his strong, beautifully structured and eloquent script. Upscale audiences will embrace the fine results…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 11 Oct 2007

Far more than another Holocaust drama; it's an examination of complex moral shadows that make us capable of cowardice and courage at the same time…

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By Derek Malcolm (772) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 11 Oct 2007

The Counterfeiters is a story that had to be told, and German director Stefan Ruzowitzky tells it plainly but well…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 11 Oct 2007

Ruzowitsky's film, austerely shot and scripted with terse wit, grants itself a licence to make art in exchange for entertaining us with a gripping…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 11 Oct 2007

This is a first-rate piece of film-making that should appeal to fans of last year's The Lives of Others…

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By Philip Kemp (186) for Total Film (3,532) on 09 Oct 2007

The Counterfeiters is anchored in Markovics' central turn as a chilly egotist forced, for the first time, to consider others' needs…

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By Demetrios Matheou (85) for Film4 (1,522) on 09 Oct 2007

An absorbing new perspective on the moral, physical and emotional adversity faced in the concentration camps, with one of the most unusual…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 09 Oct 2007

Sensibly, this never takes sides...and it proves a chilling reminder of the dilemmas faced by those placed in an impossible situation…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Oct 2007

Stefan Ruzowitzky's meshing of plot with debate is impressive. His film is compelling and clever…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 17 Sep 2007

Only WWII junkies will find much of anything worth embracing here…

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