Stefan Ruzowitzky, the former music video and commercial director, won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Oscar for The Counterfeiters, an adaptation of Adolf Burger's memoir about surviving the Holocaust by taking part in Operation Bernhard. And after making the German children's film Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book, the Austrian filmmaker finally did what most foreign language Academy Award winners do: make a film with American stars. Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnam star in Ruzowitzky's new thriller called Deadfall and EW's PopWatch debuted the first poster. Take a look... Deadfall screened at Tribecca and even though we didn't review it, Perri did catch up with director Stefan Ruzowitzky for an interview. The movie is about the aftermath of a botched casino robbery by sibling criminals Addison (Bana) and Liza (Wilde). Forced to flee into the cold Canadian wilderness, the brother and sister split up with...
- 6/14/2012
- cinemablend.com
Shemaroo World Cinema has released the German crime drama, The Counterfeiters on DVD. The film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is originally called Die Fälscher and is ninety-eight minutes long with subtitles in English. Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book -The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl_Markovics) may be a talented artist at heart, but his desire for wealth has driven him to use his creativity for more nefarious means. Arrested by the police inspector ...
- 6/11/2010
- BusinessofCinema
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
- 10/12/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
- 10/12/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
- 10/12/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
- 10/12/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
After a brief respite, we're back with Part 3 of tMF's Top 50 Essential Foreign Films. This time the spotlight is on German cinema.
- - -
- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
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- - - As in Part 1 - French cinema and Part 2 - Movies from the UK, the scope remains the same:
Content-wise, the 50 movies feature stories about war and peace, love and romance, family affairs, coming-of-age tales, cultural and religious diversity, social issues (including prostitution and abortion) and personal - celebrating life or facing death with dignity. Coverage-wise, tMF list down many of the best foreign films from 2000 until last year from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and about 15 other countries in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
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1. Das Experiment - 2001 - Featuring the amazing performance of Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, from the direction of Oliver Hirschbiegel.
About the Movie: Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel's...
- 10/12/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
In an interview with Adolf Burger he refers to his time at the World War II concentration camp Sachsenhausen as if they were "dead men on holiday". This is in reference to the Jewish men brought to the camp by the Germans with the sole intent to counterfeit the English pound note moving on to the American dollar in an attempt to fund the Nazi war effort while damaging enemy economies. It was known as "Operation Bernhard" and it is, to date, the largest known counterfeit operation ever having forged more that 132 million in British Pound Sterling. The quote is powerful, especially after you see what the men went through. The Counterfeiters won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008 and much of the story is taken from Burger's book, "The Devil's Workshop," adapted for the screen by director Stefan Ruzowitzky with the aid of Burger. The story focuses...
- 7/20/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
- The Counterfeiters is Austria's entry in the foreign-language Oscar race this year and Stefan Ruzowitzky's World War II drama has a good chance at making it in the final 5 selections with Sony Pictures Classics backing the picture.Adapted from the Adolf Burger memoirs, Des Teufels Werkstatt (The Devil’s Workshop), Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow). Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard.
- 8/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
NEW YORK -- Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed North American rights to German drama The Counterfeiters, a true story about a money-manufacturing operation set up by the Nazis.
The film, from writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky, last week received seven Lola nominations, including best feature.
Ruzowitzky, whose credits include 1998's The Inheritors and 2000's Anatomie, adapted the film from Adolf Burger's memoirs The Devil's Workshop.
The film stars Karl Markovics, who plays the head of a counterfeiting operation, and David Striesow, who plays the superintendent who arrests Markovics' character and then puts him in charge of an effort to produce fake foreign currency.
The film was produced by Nina Bohlmann, Babette Schroeder and Josef Aichholzer and co-produced by Caroline von Senden, Henning Molfenter and Carl L. Woebcken.
The acquisition reteams SPC with Beta Cinema, with which it made a deal for the German film The Lives of Others, which won the Oscar last month for best foreign-language film.
SPC's Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Dylan Leiner negotiated the deal with Dirk Schuerhoff of Beta Cinema.
The film, from writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky, last week received seven Lola nominations, including best feature.
Ruzowitzky, whose credits include 1998's The Inheritors and 2000's Anatomie, adapted the film from Adolf Burger's memoirs The Devil's Workshop.
The film stars Karl Markovics, who plays the head of a counterfeiting operation, and David Striesow, who plays the superintendent who arrests Markovics' character and then puts him in charge of an effort to produce fake foreign currency.
The film was produced by Nina Bohlmann, Babette Schroeder and Josef Aichholzer and co-produced by Caroline von Senden, Henning Molfenter and Carl L. Woebcken.
The acquisition reteams SPC with Beta Cinema, with which it made a deal for the German film The Lives of Others, which won the Oscar last month for best foreign-language film.
SPC's Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Dylan Leiner negotiated the deal with Dirk Schuerhoff of Beta Cinema.
- 3/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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