Interview. Stefan Ruzowitzky.

The Counterfeiters, nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category, is based on true events: the Nazis planned to destabilize the American and British economies by flooding the markets with fake dollars and pounds. And they enlisted prisoners in concentration camps to counterfeit the bills. This presents a dark dilemma to the prisoners: cooperate and survive - or sabotage the project and possibly pay with their lives.

"I don't think there is the right way to behave in a situation like that," director Stefan Ruzowitzky tells Michael Guillén.

Meantime, reviews are still being collected here.

Update, 2/25: And then, the Oscar: "Ruzowitzky hopes the international success of his critically acclaimed The Counterfeiters will push Austrian officials to take the country's film industry more seriously," reports Spiegel Online.

Posted by dwhudson at February 22, 2008 2:17 PM