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This movie is well worth watching. Very well acted and an interesting and realistic true story.

Based on the real-life Nazi plan, this very tense and stressful drama rises among one of the best concentration camp movies due to some amazing performances. One of the best movies of the year for sure. It deftly avoids getting melodramatic which is a long-standing problem of many hollywood prison or concentration camp movies. I'm beginning to get addicted to the whole hand-held camerawork that Paul Greengrass used to great success in the 2 most recent Bourne movies as well as United 93. It adds an extra level of tension to an already suspenseful film. It is again used here by director Stefan Ruzowitzky and I think it totally works. Without taking a stance on the moral issues dug into this film, the movie sympathizes with those that play their cards to win even though the rules of the game are ruthless. The camera is mercifully kept inside the counterfeiters' separate barracks and we are left to guess as to what is going on in the rest of the camp. This is an especially haunting aspect of the film in numerous places where our imaginations can betray us. Very unsettling.

I went by the poster and failed to see it was in German since the poster was in English. I resent being essentially duped into seeing a film about the Holocaust, when I am interested in seeing historical films, but not when I expect to see a film about European gangsters. Is that supposed to be a joke? Lousy joke. Plenty of folk are interested in history and are not in need of a lecture about WW2 under the pretense of a romantic action flick. Extreamly poor move by the promo people.

Superb movie! Worth watching!! Serious subject matter, but a human film with multifaceted characters. Captivating film.

Very good movie, but at times, not easy to watch. I can understand why it won an Academy for the best foreign film. Based on a true story and it's believable! Worth 8½.

This film is truly a masterpiece, similar as "The Pianist" and "Downfall". Such films reminds us the sins of war.

Very interesting movie, good actors and a true story...

"Jedem Das Seine", or "To each man what he deserves" as the sign read on the workplace wall, symbolizes an important moral question which is faced by this movie. Do the oppressors and the oppressed really get what they deserve? Faced with impossible moral dilemmas, such as to whether it is nobler to die today for a cause or to live until tomorrow to struggle (in perhaps a relatively insignificant way) against oppression, each man in this movie attempts to resolve in a different way. Or, is it better to give up a fellow prisoner to save oneself or some other prisoner? Fortunately, the movie focuses on some of the best treated concentration camp prisoners which saves the viewer from seeing much of the worst brutality which existed in those situations. In german with english subtitles, it is well worth the effort.

Very interesting movie, sometime hard to watch...