NR | 1h 55min | Drama, War, Biography, History | 02 May 2023 (Germany/Luxembourg)
Easily the most horrific event of the 20th century, the Holocaust is also a seemingly endless source of inspirational and heartbreaking films that remind each subsequent generation that evil in all of its forms can and must be thwarted.
“The Forger” is based on the autobiography of Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann, “Dark”), a German-born Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Berlin with charm, quick thinking, fearless wit, and a gift for doctoring government-issued identification documents.
Based on the Schönhaus 2004 memoir “Der Passfälscher” (translation: “The Forger”), the screenplay was written by director Maggie Peren and contains many of the same thematic anti-Nazi elements of her criminally underrated “Before the Fall,” also released in 2004….