The Counterfeiters

I promised my girlfriend no one got killed in this movie, but really, how was I supposed to know? It’s a movie about Jews circa World War II. Chances are pretty good that some are going to get killed and, of course, some do. So now you know and you have no excuse to lie to your girlfriend, boyfriend, whoever.
What is most striking about the film, is that it removes itself ever-so-slightly from its context (not entirely, of course; it would be impossible to make a movie set during the Holocaust and have it simply melt into the background), so that the film is less about Holocaust martyrdom and more about level-headed, pragmatic prison politics a la Don Corleone from The Godfather.
There’s nothing particularly special about the camera-work: shaky handheld camera and implicating zooms are both reminiscent of that found in The Office (although in The Counterfeiters the zooms seem more random).
The film is the story of a handful of Jews given special priviledges and relatively regal living conditions, because of their ability to counterfeit money which the Nazis use to flood the British and American economise. There is a sort of capitalist ends-justify-the-means morality tale, but ultimately, the film questions their hardships and their authenticity as survivors of the Holocaust.

Ugly - the Holocaust always is.