🌐 Dinner & Movie Night
📅 Wednesday, Sept. 17
🍲 6:00pm · Dinner
🎥 7:00pm · Screening of “The Counterfeiters” (“Die Fälscher”) (2007)
📍 Bethe House, West Campus
Discussion with Cory Doctorow (A.D. White Professor-at-Large) to follow
🎟️ Free & open to all.
Hosted: Chris Alabi (Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology)
About the film:
“The Counterfeiters” is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by Germany in 1936. Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission.
Handpicked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Bernhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance, but while Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany’s enemies, Adolf refuses to use his skills for German profit and would like to do something to stop Operation Bernhard’s aid to the war effort. Faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions, which could prolong the war and risk the lives of fellow prisoners, are ultimately the right ones. – Sony Pictures Classics
You may also like the following events from A. D. White Professors-at-Large at Cornell:
- This Thursday, 18th September, 09:00 am, Toni Morrison: Celebrating The 70th Anniversary of her Cornell Degree (MA 1955) in Ithaca
- This Thursday, 18th September, 04:00 pm, Policy Provocations: A Conversation about Communication Power, Policy, and Practice in Ithaca
- This Thursday, 18th September, 06:00 pm, 2025 Nordlander Lecture in Science & Public Policy in Ithaca
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