Cine-Club

Thursday 10 November 2011 at 20:30
CERN Council Chamber

The Counterfeiters / Die Fälscher

By: Stefan Ruzowitzky
(Germany/Austria, 2007) 98 min

With: Karl Markovics, August Diel, Devid Striesow

The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Master counterfeiter Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch, a Jew without morals, is arrested and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he weasels through by offering his ‘artistic’ services. After transfer to Sachsenhausen he’s given an official alternative: taking ‘artistic’ charge of a cons teams assigned to produce perfect forgeries of allied banknotes for the Third Reich. Survivor Sally accepts, but conscience matters among the team prove no less dangerous then a sadistic jailer, which only the CO may keep in check.

Original version German; English subtitles

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Thursday 17 November 2011 at 20:30
CERN Council Chamber

The White Ribbon / Das Weisse Band

By: Michael Haneke
(Germany/Austria/France/Italy, 2009) 144 min

With: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch

In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school, run by the village schoolteacher and their families, experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions?

Original version German; English subtitles

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