The Counterfeiters (2007)

This one won the 2007 Best Foreign Film Oscar--from Austria. The award is well deserved. The movie is a brilliant look inside concentration camps of the Nazi era. We follow a counterfeiter, apparently the most brilliant counterfeiter ever, who is arrested and sent to a work camp. He is then "rescued" from certain death and transferred to another camp where an especially enterprising Nazi has a counterfeiting lab set up so that the Nazi's might fund their war with faux money. These prisoners are treated well comparatively. They have a different bunker with a little yard, a proper bathroom (complete with water showers), clean (albeit stolen from dead prisoners) clothes, a ping-pong table--relative freedom in comparison to the average concentration camp prisoner. There are, of course, problems surrounding their treatment. They get to live and live sort of well albeit imprisoned if they create the money to fund the Nazi war and perpetuate the cycle. The moral dilemma is brought to the forefront in a remarkable way--the viewer doesn't feel pinned by one side but feels the weight of the decision. It's amazing that film can simultaneously not take sides but not feel wishy-washy. It's a definite watch. Like right now.