Die Fälscher

Crime, War

Karl Markovics	Salomon Sorowitsch
August Diehl	Adolf Burger
Devid Striesow	Sturmbannführer Friedrich Herzog
Martin Brambach	Holst
August Zirner	Dr. Klinger
Veit Stübner	Atze
Sebastian Urzendowsky	Kolya Karloff
Andreas Schmidt	Zilinski
Tilo Prückner	Dr. Viktor Hahn
Lenn Kudrjawizki	Loszek
Marie Bäumer	Aglaya
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey	Hans
Dolores Chaplin	Die Rothaarige
Werner Daehn	Rosenthal

Director	Stefan Ruzowitzky
Producer	Henning Molfenter; Josef Aichholzer
Writer	Stefan Ruzowitzky; Adolf Burger

Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is a successful forger, mainly dabbling in laundered money and falsified currency. He lives in Nazi Germany during WWII, and is arrested and imprisoned in a hard labor camp, and then a concentration camp. In an act of self-preservation, he uses his artistic skills once reserved for forgery to paint portraits of the guards and their families. Salomon becomes very well-known for his art, and eventually he is transferred to a new camp reserved for prisoners with special skills. His fellow detainees have backgrounds in bank managing art, and printing, and the Nazis have assigned them to the task of counterfeiting money to be used to fund the war. Although he is relieved to have found a way to protect himself, he begins to worry about the war they are perpetuating, especially after his co-counterfeiters decide they do not want to support the German war effort and plan to sabotage the operation.