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)

[28 February 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Dimensions

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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