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Thu May 22 - Thu May 29

The Counterfeiters


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Date and Time
Landmark's Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Golden Gate Street
district: Polk Gulch/Van Ness

Thu May 22 ((1:50 4:15) 6:50 9:20 )
Fri May 23 ((1:40) 6:50 )
Sat May 24 ((1:40) 6:50 )
Sun May 25 ((1:40) 6:50 )
Mon May 26 ((1:40) 6:50 )

Description
The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times: over £130 million in British currency was printed, under conditions that couldn't have been more tragic or spectacular. 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. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film.