The Counterfeiters is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize
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Karl Markovics, Andreas Schmidt, Adolf Burger, and August Diehl at the Premier of The Counterfeiters at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival
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Adolf Burger was a Czech Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award
The Counterfeiters (2007 film)
…at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The film is based on the 1983 Czech-language memoir Komando padělatelů ("The Commando of Counterfeiters") by Adolf Burger, which was published in English as The Devil's Workshop. Burger was a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal…
Burger in Paris, 2008