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The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, David Striesow, Veit Stübner, Sebastian Urzendowsky

(Sony Pictures Classics, 2007) Rated: R

US theatrical release date: 22 February 2008 (Limited release)

UK theatrical release date: 12 October 2007 (General release)

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Review: The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)

Cynthia Fuchs

28.Feb.08

The Counterfeiters resists the genre's usual reverential long takes, displaying atrocities or alluding to them gently, and is instead comprised of handheld, deeply shadowed, herky-jerky imagery, difficult and appalling.

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