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The The Mineral Point Film Society is a group of film lovers who strive to bring significant world cinema to Mineral Point. We hope to present films that have set aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards; not mainstream films, but those ordinarily unavailable to a local or even regional audience. We choose from the best in foreign, avant garde and independent productions. For membership
information contact Films are shown
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Winner
2008 Academy Award Non-members
are welcome to attend the Sunday show and join us for refreshments.
Admission is $10. Email to be put on the guest list. info@mpoh.org |
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MWriter/director Stefan Ruzowitzky explores the moral corrosion of Nazi complicity with this tightly wound adaptation of Adolf Burger's fact-based book The Devil's Workshop. Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire, agreed to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeiting operation set up to finance the war effort. Over 130 million pounds sterling were 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, intending to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war coffers.MAt the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. "Operation Bernhard" was born. Prisoners were brought to Sachsenhausen from other camps to implement the plan, and professional printers, fastidious bank officials, and simple craftsmen all became members of the top-secret counterfeiter crew. They had a choice: If they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive as first-class prisoners in a "golden cage" with enough to eat and a bed to sleep in. If they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them. For the counterfeiters, it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well... |
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