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* LiteralMetaphor: At the end, Sally's curvaceous French girlfriend mourns all the dough he just lost at the gaming tables, saying "So much money!" Sally's answer: "Don't worry, we can always make more." He can!
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* TheMagicPokerEquation: The dealer at Monte Carlo has a full house. Sally has four of a kind, an even better hand, but folds because he wants to gamble all his fake money away.
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* ScarsAreForever: Sally's number. Sally takes a hot babe to bed in Monte Carlo, and she is shocked when she sees the number tattooed on his left arm.
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** Sally's number. Sally takes a hot babe to bed in Monte Carlo, and she is shocked when she sees the number tattooed on his leftarm.arm.
** At the moment of liberation the clean, well-fed workers of Operation Bernhard are mistaken for SS men and nearly lynched by the newly-freed regular prisoners of Sachsenhausen. They prove that they are Jews by showing their number tattoos.
** Sally's number. Sally takes a hot babe to bed in Monte Carlo, and she is shocked when she sees the number tattooed on his left
** At the moment of liberation the clean, well-fed workers of Operation Bernhard are mistaken for SS men and nearly lynched by the newly-freed regular prisoners of Sachsenhausen. They prove that they are Jews by showing their number tattoos.
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* DramaticGunCock: How the audience finds out that Sally has grabbed Herzog's pistol in the darkened barracks building at night: by Sally dramatically working the slide of the Luger, chambering a round.
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* AffablyEvil: Sturmbannführer Herzog: When he arrests Sally in 1936 Berlin, Herzog cheerfully says that it's an honor to nab the MasterForger. They meet again in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where Herzog, who is assembling the counterfeiting team, says "We use a different tone here," in his domain. He hands out cigarettes to his prisoners and gives them regular civilian clothing--stolen from murdered Jews.
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* AffablyEvil: Sturmbannführer Herzog: When he arrests Sally in 1936 Berlin, Herzog cheerfully says that it's an honor to nab the MasterForger. They meet again in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where Herzog, who is assembling the counterfeiting team, says "We use a different tone here," in his domain. He hands out cigarettes to his prisoners and gives them regular civilian clothing--stolen from murdered Jews. The forging team gets better food and clean beds, and Herzog even gives them a ping-pong table. However, the film makes clear that Herzog is an utterly immoral SS monster who will happily kill Sally and everyone else on the team if they don't deliver. The kindnesses he shows are only his way of getting results.
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* TimeSkip: A "Five Years Later" time skip reveals that Sally has survived years in Nazi concentration camps by making himself useful as an artist, drawing pictures and murals. He's then taken to Sachsenhausen and enrolled in the CounterfeitCash operation.
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* BodyWipe: Sally is eating at an outdoor restaurant in Monte Carlo. The camera zooms in on the back of a waiter bringing him a bottle of champagne--cut to 1936 and another waiter bringing champagne to Sally's table at a Berlin nightclub.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: In the opening scenes Sally is living the highlife in 1945 Monte Carlo, carrying around a briefcase full of counterfeit dollars.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: In the opening scenes Sally is living the highlife in 1945 Monte Carlo, carrying around a briefcase full of counterfeit dollars.
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I can't understand when people decide to comment out entries rather than provide the context, which in this case one doesn't even have to see the movie to know
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* HowWeGotHere: The opening shot has Sally on the French Riviera. The camera pans down to a broadside with the headline "La Guerre Est Finie", letting the audience know that this scene is taking place in May 1945 after the war is over.
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* BringMyBrownPants: Non-comedic example. Near the end of the film, [[spoiler: a disarmed Krüger wets himself when Sally corners him with his own gun.]]
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* BringMyBrownPants: Non-comedic example. Near the end of the film, [[spoiler: a disarmed Krüger Herzog wets himself when Sally corners him with his own gun.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Krüger. During Sally's visit to his house, he is shown doting on his kids, and, rarely for his time, is adamantly opposed to corporal punishment.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: SS Major Bernhard Krüger. He's creepy too but he certainly counts as wacky, what with the ping-pong table and all.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: SS Major Bernhard Krüger. Herzog. He's creepy too creepy, but he certainly counts as wacky, what with the ping-pong table and all.
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* MasterForger: The concentration camp prisoners who are chosen for counterfeiting British pounds and American dollars.
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* MasterForger: The Sally Sorowitsch is one of Europe's foremost experts in counterfeiting money. Unfortunately for him, he's also a Jewish man in Nazi Berlin. In exchange for his life, he and several other concentration camp prisoners who are chosen for counterfeiting British pounds agree to help with a scheme to flood America with counterfeit dollars in order to destroy the US economy and American dollars.prevent them from joining UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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* EvilVersusEvil: How Sally, who had to flee his home following the [[RedOctober Russian Revolution]], views the conflict between the Nazis and Communists. It's the main source of his antagonism towards Burger.
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* EvilVersusEvil: How Sally, who had to flee his home following the [[RedOctober [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], views the conflict between the Nazis and Communists. It's the main source of his antagonism towards Burger.
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''The Counterfeiters'' (German: ''Die Fälscher'') 2007 German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
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''The Counterfeiters'' (German: ''Die Fälscher'') is a 2007 German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
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->''Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.''
-> (I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else.)
->-Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch
A 2007 German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
-> (I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else.)
->-Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch
A 2007 German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
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''The Counterfeiters'' (German: ''Die Fälscher'') 2007 German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
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A German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
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A 2007 German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
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* NaziGermany: Also partly set in Nazi Austria (although at the time that technically was part of "Greater Germany").
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* HeyItsThatGuy: August Diehl plays a jew here, and a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds.
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* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Men Love Their Kids]]: Krüger. During Sally's visit to his house, he is shown doting on his kids, and, rarely for his time, is adamantly opposed to corporal punishment.
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* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Men Love Their Kids]]: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Krüger. During Sally's visit to his house, he is shown doting on his kids, and, rarely for his time, is adamantly opposed to corporal punishment.
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->''Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.''
-> (I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else.)
->-Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch
A German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
Burger, the communist collotype printer, resists the printing and together the prisoners manage to delay the printing until the war ends.
The subplot follows the main character, Sally Sorowitsch, a career forger and Jew as he befriends Berger and the young Russian artist, Kolya. Originally motivated by money and self-preservation, Sally begins to find honour in his existence.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AdaptationNameChange: Every significant character in Adolf Burger's memoir had their name changed in the film, except for the author himself and opera singer Isaak Plappler.
* AffablyEvil: Sturmbannführer Herzog
* BringMyBrownPants: Non-comedic example. Near the end of the film, [[spoiler: a disarmed Krüger wets himself when Sally corners him with his own gun.]]
* CounterfeitCash: Naturally.
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Men Love Their Kids]]: Krüger. During Sally's visit to his house, he is shown doting on his kids, and, rarely for his time, is adamantly opposed to corporal punishment.
* EvilVersusEvil: How Sally, who had to flee his home following the [[RedOctober Russian Revolution]], views the conflict between the Nazis and Communists. It's the main source of his antagonism towards Burger.
* GallowsHumor: From one of the Sachsenhausen inmates, "Why is there no God in Auschwitz? . . . He didn't make it through the selection process."
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Sally and Kolya.
* NaziGermany: Also partly set in Nazi Austria (although at the time that technically was part of "Greater Germany").
* ScarsAreForever: Sally's number.
* ThoseWackyNazis: SS Major Bernhard Krüger. He's creepy too but he certainly counts as wacky, what with the ping-pong table and all.
* WhileRomeBurns: The counterfeiters are shielded from most of the excesses of camp life, and live in relative luxury, and some of their merrymaking comes off as an attempt to suppress their guilt.
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->''Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.''
-> (I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else.)
->-Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch
A German language film based on the true story of the Nazi Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history. Jews and other concentration camp prisoners with artistic, printing, banking or counterfeiting experience are moved to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. They are forced to forge British pounds, in a Nazi plot to destabilise the British economy but the pounds are forged so well that the Germans decide to pay for the German war effort. Then the prisoners are told to print the American Dollar.
Burger, the communist collotype printer, resists the printing and together the prisoners manage to delay the printing until the war ends.
The subplot follows the main character, Sally Sorowitsch, a career forger and Jew as he befriends Berger and the young Russian artist, Kolya. Originally motivated by money and self-preservation, Sally begins to find honour in his existence.
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!!This work provides examples of:
* AdaptationNameChange: Every significant character in Adolf Burger's memoir had their name changed in the film, except for the author himself and opera singer Isaak Plappler.
* AffablyEvil: Sturmbannführer Herzog
* BringMyBrownPants: Non-comedic example. Near the end of the film, [[spoiler: a disarmed Krüger wets himself when Sally corners him with his own gun.]]
* CounterfeitCash: Naturally.
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Men Love Their Kids]]: Krüger. During Sally's visit to his house, he is shown doting on his kids, and, rarely for his time, is adamantly opposed to corporal punishment.
* EvilVersusEvil: How Sally, who had to flee his home following the [[RedOctober Russian Revolution]], views the conflict between the Nazis and Communists. It's the main source of his antagonism towards Burger.
* GallowsHumor: From one of the Sachsenhausen inmates, "Why is there no God in Auschwitz? . . . He didn't make it through the selection process."
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Sally and Kolya.
* NaziGermany: Also partly set in Nazi Austria (although at the time that technically was part of "Greater Germany").
* ScarsAreForever: Sally's number.
* ThoseWackyNazis: SS Major Bernhard Krüger. He's creepy too but he certainly counts as wacky, what with the ping-pong table and all.
* WhileRomeBurns: The counterfeiters are shielded from most of the excesses of camp life, and live in relative luxury, and some of their merrymaking comes off as an attempt to suppress their guilt.
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