Rating: R - some strong violence, brief sexuality/nudity and language
Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, Dolores Chaplin
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Genres: War Drama, POW Drama, Drama
Friday May 2 - Sunday May 4
2:15 • 9:10
Monday May 5 - Thursday May 8
4:30 only
During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. They hoped to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps: professional printers, fastidious bank officials and simple craftsmen all became members of the top-secret counterfeiter commando. If they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive; if they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them. Based on a true story.
