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Better than Schindler's List


A landmark film, even with the Foreign language Oscar it deserved much more attention. There's no forced theatrics of Schindler's List, just a very realistic and engrossing Holocaust story, beautifully directed, shot and acted. Anyone agrees?

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Totally agree.
But, let's make this clear... Schindler's List is a little bit overrated. Doesn't it? That movie had a huge hype campaign and it was promoted everywhere.
This film "Die Fälscher" is awesome, so bad that even though it got an oscar it isn't well-known.
It kinda reminds me about the situation of "Sorstalansag", the biggest hungarian film ever... and nobody knows it :(



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Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out!

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Completely agree. Schindler's List was given the usual Holocaust Hollywood/Spielberg touch whereas this film shows actual human beings with 3-dimensional characters and their own individual motivations.

I loved the fact that Sally's character was so flawed yet also a hero. I loved the way they showed Burger's commitment to his principles, even when it threatened the lives of his comrades. I felt like I got to know the inmates of that camp far better than the characters depicted in Schindler's List.

A lot of Hollywood Holocaust films show all the victims as just victims, without any of the infighting, heirarchy and bullying that occurred, or indeed any of the nuances that make up human nature.

I was fascinated with this film from start to finish - I only watched it for the first time last night but I have been raving about it all day to everyone who I've spoken to!

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schindlers list was entertaining, but sadly that was about it. during the entire movie i didnt care about any of the characters and it made me think to myself "why was this mobvie such a big deal?" the counterfeiters had me actually feel sad for the characters because they wanted you to actually understand there character. just like the pianist is probably the best holocaust movie ever made because you actually care what happens to adrien brodies character and his family.

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nah







so many movies, so little time

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