2008-08-19 14:50:00 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
Back in February, when The Counterfeiters debuted in the States, this foreign-language Oscar winner from Austria struck us as “arresting, and all the more visceral for being based on a horrific true story.” The story is that of real-life counterfeiter Adolf Burger, a Jewish criminal used by the Nazis to mint fake money. This DVD release goes deeper into Burger's astonishing experience (did he collaborate or undermine the project that kept him alive?) with a Q&A and show-and-tell of his historical artifacts.
