The film is based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger , a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation , and was later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard . Ruzowitsky consulted closely with Burger through almost every stage of the writing and production . The film won the 2007 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards
The Counterfeiters (2007 film)