A good film, no doubt, but no way it was the best foreign language film of the year (see instead "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days," which was probably the best film period of last year). We see the life of a professional counterfeiter who, in a concentration camp, is given the choice task of helping Nazis counterfeit the dollar and the pound. He faces an ethical dilemma: to do the task allows him a chance to live, but it also helps prolong the German war effort.
The ethical issues are tricky and nicely presented, but not as profound as in the recent "Black Book." And the film also, admirably, does what few other WWII films do: it comes close to portraying the Germans as human beings, which is one reason "Stalingrad" has stuck with me every since I saw it years ago.
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