Wow!
I can't believe it! Stefan Ruzowitzky got the first Academy Award in Austrian history!
His movie 'The Counterfeiters' ('Die Faelscher') got the Oscar in the category 'Foreign Language Film'.
Film Synopsis:
In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a group of prisoners with skills ranging from finance to forgery are put to work under the direction of a master counterfeiter manufacturing perfect replicas of foreign bank notes. As the Nazis plot to cause the collapse of the U.S. and British economies by flooding their markets with false bills, some of the prisoners use delaying tactics to forestall the plan.
I haven't seen the movie yet but I will as soon as I can for sure!
Websites: The Oscars, Die Faelscher (The Counterfeiters) (german)
Monday, February 25, 2008
and the Oscar goes to... Austria!
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