An incredible film that feels very unique among its peers of holocaust focused cinema. The contrast between the treatment of the Jewish counterfeiting operation versus the general Jewish population provides a powerful foundation to the story, as thought provoking to the characters themselves as it is to the audience. I really didn't have any complaints. The writing, performances, and overall story are all brilliantly executed and powerful.

As an aside, I try to go into all of my films blind, but there are levels to that blindness. The lowest level of blindness is just avoiding spoilers. That's the level that most everyone considers normal. It starts to get controversial when you move to level two: avoiding trailers. Most people rely on trailers to make them aware of up and coming films to get excited about, but for me they are just spoilers by another name. The third and final level is having zero knowledge of the movie. Not knowing the premise. Not knowing any of the actors. Not even knowing the genre. This level is almost impossible to achieve, as even seeing a poster can convey a lot of information. Which brings us to this film. I watched this film with what I thought was the 2nd level of blindness. I hadn't seen the trailer, but from the poster and the title I had a sense of what it was about. Or at least, I thought I did. All of this is to say, I've discovered a new level of blindness. Whereas the first three levels are all about having little to no expectations, this fourth level is about having expectations that are completely wrong. I thought this was some sort of thriller about counterfeiting in the vein of Oceans Eleven. I was very wrong.