"In "The Counterfeiters," those cauterized features and the talent behind them have been put to the test of playing Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, the finest banknote forger in pre-World War II Berlin. There's a back story to Sally we never hear. We know he's originally from Russia and that he's a trained artist. We know the Great War was bad for him and that, in his words, he "had a family, once." The face does the rest, shoving sympathy away.
I finished watching this film just a couple of hours ago and I am under its impression.It was in German with Spanish subtitles and gave me great joy in terms of vocabulary extension in those two languages. The film put so many questions in my mind related to Holocaust issues,Operation Berhard the problem of collaboration with the Nazis and simply survival.
