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The Counterfeiters (2007)

Where The Counterfeiters says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

The camp in the film was never filmed at the camp: Sachsenhausen was rebuilt inside a studio near Berlin.

Scenes and places

A stranger with a suitcase of cash in Monte Carlo (1945)

A man checks into an expensive hotel, pays in cash and wins at the casino, catching the eye of a French woman. Her glance at the numbers tattooed on his arm shows what he has lived through.

Set in Monte Carlo casino — A hotel and a casino in Monte Carlo, where the film opens and closes. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Monte Carlo is the film's frame: the postwar present from which the story looks back.

Filmed at Monte Carlo, Monaco (exact building not named) — The production shot in Monte Carlo; the sources do not say which hotel or casino. The point shown is the Casino de Monte-Carlo, as a city-level marker only. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Berlin, 1936: the forger is caught (1936)

In 1936 Sally lives well on forged currency and passports until the police catch him. He is sent to a labour camp, the first stop on the way to Mauthausen.

Set in Berlin — Berlin in 1936, where Sorowitsch works as a successful forger of currency and passports. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The film places Sally's old life in Berlin; no source says where these scenes were shot.

Portraits for the guards at Mauthausen (1940)

Sally turns his forging skills to portraiture and paints the guards and their families for extra food. The skill that landed him in the camp is what keeps him alive there.

Set in Mauthausen concentration camp — The camp near Linz in Austria where Sally is sent. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Mauthausen was a camp complex near Linz, now a memorial.

Filmed at Mauthausen Memorial, Austria — Only exterior shots were allowed at the real site, with the buildings in the background. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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The forgery workshop at Sachsenhausen (1944)

Sally is put with other prisoners who have printing and art skills and works in a forgery section of the camp. The forgers have bunks and food that others lack, yet the guards still beat and insult them, and the men disagree on whether to help the war effort.

Set in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, forgery section — A special section of Sachsenhausen devoted to forgery, kept apart from the rest of the camp. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Sachsenhausen camp lies at Oranienburg, north of Berlin, and is a memorial today.

Characters

• Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch — A Jewish forger of currency and passports in 1936 Berlin, coerced into the Nazi counterfeiting operation at Sachsenhausen.
• Adolf Burger — A Jewish Slovak typographer, one of the prisoners put to work on the forged banknotes.
• Sturmbannführer Herzog — The SS officer who runs the counterfeiting operation (based on Bernhard Krüger).