The Counterfeiters. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1983 book, The Devil's Workshop
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The Devil's Workshop
Adolf Burger, 1983
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Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2007

The film begins shortly after the end of the Second World War, with a man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and attracting the attention of a beautiful French woman. Later, she discovers tattooed numerals on his arm, revealing him as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.


The Command. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2002 book, A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
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A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy
Robert Moore, 2002
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Thomas Vinterberg, 2018

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.