'Counterfeiters' true Holocaust story in foreign film race

February 15, 2008 With so many movies having already been made about the Holocaust you'd think filmmakers would have exhausted all possible storylines a long time ago. Opening Feb. 22 in New York and Los Angeles via Sony Pictures Classics, "Counterfeiters" is Austria's official selection in the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race. The film, shown last fall at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, provides a fresh approach to the Holocaust as movie material with its true story of one death camp inmate whose professional abilities as an expert forger made him a particularly valuable prisoner.

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