#*# The Counterfeiters BD Live Blu ray

Superbly directed & acted, "The Counterfeiters" is a wholly believable recreation of the horror, mind-numbing tension and necessary survival instincts for those few who had any hope at all in a German concentration camp. The other reviews say it all but what, for me, made the film so good was the way it captured the day-to-day decisions facing these people and the incredible dichotomy they faced between self-preservation and what was "right". What would you do in the same situation?... You know that by printing the highest quality forged dollar notes (which your group of Jewish technicians carefully selected for "privileged treatment" in the camp have the skills to do) you're extending your own survival time but also the survival time for the regime that's put you in this situation but, if you don't do it, you're condemning yourself and your workmates to certain death. So, do you deliberately ensure that the plates for printing the bank notes are flawed and, as a result, accelerate the fall of the Nazi regime but in the process sign your & their death warrants... or, do you do what's required (which you know you can), and ensure that you and they have a better hope of short term and, possibly, long term survival? Do you buy precious time for you & them even though you know that by buying this time you're also perpetuating the horrors that surround you?



The brilliance of this film is in the way that explores this incredibly complex situation. Who are the heroes here? Are they those who are prepared to sacrifice their lives to prevent the Nazis achieving their goals or are they those who are prepared to risk their lives to preserve the lives of the people who surround them? Is the pursuit of self-survival acceptable in this context and in the case of the central character, a confirmed crook, morally admirable or simply an extension of his own disregard for any morals?



Deep stuff and, thankfully, a decision that none of us are likely to face. But, if we did... what would we do? "The Counterfeiters" asks the question and, as a result, is a supremely thought provoking film with no easy answers.
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• ISBN13: 0043396263901
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.