Die Fälscher (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Escritores:

Adolf Burger (book)
Stefan Ruzowitzky (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 marzo 2007 (Alemania)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Guerra

Frase comercial:

It takes a clever man to make money, it takes a genius to stay alive

Plot:

The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936...

Plot Keywords:

Nazi | Counterfeiter | Currency | Concentration Camp | Mauthausen

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The moral dilemma of helping madmen

Reparto

Karl Markovics	...	Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch
August Diehl	...	Adolf Burger
Devid Striesow	...	Sturmbannführer Friedrich Herzog
Martin Brambach	...	Hauptscharführer Holst
August Zirner	...	Dr. Klinger
Veit Stübner	...	Atze
Sebastian Urzendowsky	...	Kolya Karloff
Andreas Schmidt	...	Zilinski
Tilo Prückner	...	Dr. Viktor Hahn
Lenn Kudrjawizki	...	Loszek
Norman Stoffregen	...	Abramovic
Bernd Raucamp	...	KZ-Insasse Dusche
Gode Benedix	...	1. KZ-Insasse
Oliver Kanter	...	2. KZ-Insasse
Dirk Prinz	...	SS-Wache
Hille Beseler	...	Grete Herzog
Erik Jan Rippmann	...	Bank Director
Tim Breyvogel	...	Agent
Dolores Chaplin	...	Girl in Casino
Roland Fischer-Briand	...	Concierge
Louie Austen	...	Poker Player
Michael Blohn	...	Croupier - Monte Carlo
Marie Bäumer	...	Aglaia
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey	...	Hans
Jan Pohl	...	Sascha
Lilly Kugler	...	Dame
Matthias Luhn	...	Ganove (as Matthias Lühne)
Heinz Schubert	...	Hehler
Roswitha Straka	...	Tänzerin (as Rosi Straka)
Holger Schober	...	Unterscharführer
Steve Thiede	...	Kapo
Peter Strauß	...	SS Officer
Bernhard Linke	...	Junger Insasse
Werner Daehn	...	Rosenthal
Leander Modersohn	...	SS-Soldat Zug
Anton Maria Aigner	...	Regieassistenz
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Marian Kalus	...	Plappler
Hans Peter Kortenbruck	...	3 KZ Insasse
Michael Racinais	...	Direktor
Andreas Haslinger	...	Häftling (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Stefan Ruzowitzky

Créditos del guión
Adolf Burger		(book "The Devil's Workshop")
Stefan Ruzowitzky		(screenplay)

Producida por
Josef Aichholzer	....	producer
Nina Bohlmann	....	producer
Henning Molfenter	....	co-producer
Babette Schröder	....	producer
Caroline von Senden	....	co-producer
Charlie Woebcken	....	co-producer
Sonja B. Zimmer	....	line producer

Música original por
Marius Ruhland

Fotografía por
Benedict Neuenfels

Montaje por
Britta Nahler

Casting
Heta Mantscheff
Lisa Olah
Markus Schleinzer

Diseño de producción por
Isidor Wimmer

Decorados
Christian Krüger
Gerhard Krummeich
Johannes Slapa

Diseño de vestuario por
Nicole Fischnaller

Departamento de maquillaje
Waldemar Pokromski	....	makeup artist
Daniela Skala	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Monika Maruschko	....	production manager
Christian Springer	....	production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Anton Maria Aigner	....	first assistant director
Timon Modersohn	....	second assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Joshua Black	....	painter
Dierk Grahlow	....	construction manager
Isidor Wimmer	....	set designer

Departamento de sonido
Stephan Fandrych	....	adr supervisor
Tobias Fleig	....	sound re-recording mixer
Rainer Heesch	....	sound designer
Torsten Heinemann	....	sound
Tatjana Jakob	....	supervising sound editor
Olaf Mierau	....	post-production sound supervisor
Pierre Peters-Arnolds	....	dubbing
Matthias Schwab	....	foley

Visual Effects
Joerg Bruemmer	....	digital compositor
Manfred Büttner	....	visual effects
Markus Degen	....	visual effects supervisor
Florian Gellinger	....	digital compositor
Claudia Lechen	....	digital compositor
Sven Pannicke	....	visual effects producer
Christian Pundschus	....	visual effects supervisor
Jonathan Weber	....	digital compositor

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Alexander Boboschewski	....	Steadicam operator
Petro Domenigg	....	still photographer
Jürgen Olczyk	....	still photographer
Marcus Pohlus	....	Steadicam operator

Departamento de reparto
Marcel Dykiert	....	extras casting assistant
Iris Müller	....	extras casting

Departamento de vestuario
Barbara Koeppl	....	wardrobe: extras

Departamento de Edición
Willi Willinger	....	colorist

Departamento de Música
Peter Fuchs	....	music engineer
Marius Ruhland	....	music producer
Marius Ruhland	....	orchestrator
Allan Wilson	....	conductor
Marius Ruhland	....	music arranger (uncredited)
Marius Ruhland	....	music programmer (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
Pierre Barnaud	....	location manager: France
Jorge Bosicovich	....	choreographer
Eva Cifrain	....	production coordinator
Umut Dag	....	production assistant
Katja Hoerstmann	....	co-production coordinator
Margaret Metz	....	production coordinator
Mirjam Weber	....	assistant to co-producer

Compañías Productores

• Magnolia Filmproduktion
• Babelsberg Film
• Beta Cinema
• Filmförderung Hamburg (funding)
• Josef Aichholzer Filmproduktion
• Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distribuidores

• ABC Distribution (2007) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Alfa Films (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Cinemien (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Continental Film (2007) (Slovakia) (theatrical)
• Europa Filmes (2009) (Brazil) (all media)
• Filmladen (2007) (Austria) (theatrical)
• Hollywood Classic Entertainment (2007) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Homescreen (2008) (Belgium) (DVD)
• Homescreen (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (all media)
• Mediasoft Films (2008) (South Korea) (all media)
• Metrodome Distribution (2007) (UK) (all media)
• Nordisk Film Theatrical Distribution (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Nordisk Film (2007) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Paradise Group (2007) (Russia) (all media)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2008) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Universum Film (UFA) (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Universum Film (UFA) (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (2009) (Germany) (TV)

Otras Compañías

• Listo Video  post-production (laboratory, digital intermediate, film recording, finishing services)
• Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra  orchestra

También conocida como:

The Counterfeiters (Canada: English title) (UK) (USA) (new title)
Der Fälscher (Austria) (working title)
The Counterfeiter (International: English title)
Los falsificadores (Argentina) (Mexico) (Peru) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for some strong violence, brief sexuality/nudity and language.

Duración:

98 min

País:

Austria | Alemania

Idioma:

Alemán | Ruso | Inglés | Hebreo

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:R | Argentina:16 | UK:15 | Ireland:15A | Sweden:15 | Finland:K-15 | France:Unrated | Czech Republic:12 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Germany:12 | Australia:MA | Hong Kong:IIB | Norway:15 | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Singapore:NC-16 | New Zealand:R13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Compañía:

Magnolia Filmproduktion

Trivialidades:

First Austrian film to win an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film Category.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Solly and Burger are arguing in their sleeping quarters, Burger pulls down a bunk bed. In the next shot the bed is standing up.

Citas:

Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.
[I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else]

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)

The moral dilemma of helping madmen

The story of Die Fälscher had to be told because it is a unique one that reveals both an extraordinary Jeweish experience under the Nazis, that of the arch-counterfeiter and surviver Salomon Sorowitsch (or "Sallie," Karl Markovics), and another level of Third Reich insanity, their idea, or somebody's, of flooding the market with fake pounds sterling and American dollars and thus somehow bringing down the Allies through economic sabotage, late in the game.

On the other hand when one compares this film with something with the grandeur of sweeping Holocaust films like Spielberg's Schindler's List and Polanski's The Pianist, or the poetry of Lajos Koltai's Fateless (Sorstalanság), Ruzowitzsky's film seems somehow pinched and narrow-minded. It's a good story and a tense one but it dos not sing and it will not change your life.

One reason is that the Russian-born Sallie--his story framed by inconclusive later episodes of his gambling after the war-- is such an unappealing figure. He is an ugly little hard-faced man, expressionless at key moments, and extremely difficult to care about. And nobody cares about him. When he gets syphoned off with some others from the direct path to concentration camp death at Mauthausen to work on the Nazi's mad secret project , he is the key to its success. There are bankers, printers, graphic designers, lithographers ; not evidently any other counterfeiters at all, but we take it on faith that he is an ace at the trade, worthy to head up any team aimed at creating banknotes foolproof enough to survive repeated scrutiny in massive quantities. The other men on the team bow to him, because he alone can maintain quality control and make the project a success. But do they want to make it a success? Herein lies the obvious dilemma. For Sorowitsch, survival is the priority. At the opposite extreme, Adolf Burger (August Diehl), a collotype specialist whose printing experience was for leftist political purposes, sabotaging the project is the only real option.

All we know is that SS Chief Inspector Herzog (David Striesow) supervises this business; and it was he who arrested Sorowitsch in the first place. Sorowitsch has managed to gain favor in the camp by putting himself forward as a gifted sketch artist who does portraits of officers families. Apparently this has gone on for years before the counterfeiting scheme began. The screenplay is a bit vague about the background of this effort, who approved it, who masterminded it; obviously it is essential to the welfare of Herzog. But as the Nazis' situation becomes increasingly desperate and Berger's efforts to block the making of a perfect dollar keep succeeding, Herzog himself is in trouble.

There are other important characters that give the story life. The sweet young Russian boy Kolya (Sebastian Urzendowsky) is a purist, living only for his individual style and his love of the classic Russian modernists. Unfortunately he has tuberculosis, and no one can save him, not the resident doctor, Klinger (August Zirner), nor Sallie with his bargaining power over the increasingly desperate Herzog.

All this definitely holds your attention in its rather terrible grip. The duel between Sallie and the idealistic Burger achieves a tormenting level of moral complexity. Sallie is selfish, but in saving himself he is saving the whole team; in wanting to become a martyr Burger is volunteering the others for martyrdom without their permission. in between there are drones and bankers who simply want to do a job and if possible somehow also stay alive. Outside the counterfeiting team's little compound where the beds have nice linen terrible things happen, and sometimes the terror penetrates in to them too.

The most powerful sequence is at war's end when the "real" concentration camp prisoners, dirty, bleeding, and skeletal, creep into the money makers barracks with guns, unable to believe they are prisoners. This sets the experience in the context of nightmare horror and grasps a minute of the awesome poetry of Fateless' final moments, when the fifteen-year-old György Köves wanders into Budapest and takes a tram wearing his prison stripes. Otherwise, good acting and a compelling story still aren't enough to put this in the first rank of films of this genre.