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20 July 2008 4:57 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

In an interview with Adolf Burger he refers to his time at the World War II concentration camp Sachsenhausen as if they were "dead men on holiday". This is in reference to the Jewish men brought to the camp by the Germans with the sole intent to counterfeit the English pound note moving on to the American dollar in an attempt to fund the Nazi war effort while damaging enemy economies. It was known as "Operation Bernhard" and it is, to date, the largest known counterfeit operation ever having forged more that 132 million in British Pound Sterling. The quote is powerful, especially after you see what the men went through. The Counterfeiters won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008 and much of the story is taken from Burger's book, "The Devil's Workshop," adapted for the screen by director Stefan Ruzowitzky with the aid of Burger. The story focuses

Brad Brevet

25 February 2008 10:26 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men made a stronger-than-expected showing at Sunday night's Academy Awards presentation. Although it was favored to win the best picture Oscar, it was not expected to take three major awards -- for best director (the Coens), best adapted screenplay (also the Coens), and best supporting actor (Javier Bardem). In another surprise, the best actress went to French actress Marion Cotillard for her portrayal of legendary singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. (Cotillard is only the second woman in Oscar history to win the best-actress Oscar in a foreign-language film; the other was Sophia Loren for 1961's Two Women.) Equally surprising was the supporting-actress award to Tilda Swinton for her role in Michael Clayton. Daniel Day-Lewis, on the other hand, had been a clear-cut favorite to win the best actor award -- and he did so -- for There Will Be Blood. But that film had also been favored to win several other top awards, and didn't, save in the cinematography category. Other winners had been widely predicted. Diablo Cody took the best original screenplay award for Juno. Pixar's Brad Bird picked up the animation Oscar for Ratatouille. The Austrian-produced The Counterfeiters, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, won for best foreign-language film, the Iraq-war related Taxi to the Dark Side won the feature documentary Oscar, while the gay-rights-themed Freeheld won the Oscar for documentary shorts.

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2 articles from 2008