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As the Gestapo escalates their crimes against humanity across Eastern Europe, individuals of minorities and Jewish descent increasingly fear for their lives. A skilled forger, Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann), a young Jewish man, begins crafting fake passports for the members of his community to help shepherd them to safety. Yet his counterfeiting abilities do not stop at documents as he carefully crafts a new identity to take down the enemy from the inside. Maggie Peren writes and directs the biographical drama. Co-starring Jonathan Berlin and Luna Wedler.
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The Forger (2022)
116 min
Jewish aesthete Cioma, 21, does not let anyone take away his joy of life, especially not the Nazis. In 1942, he has to find new ways to make his living in Berlin and escape deportation. In the process he discovers his talent for forgery: not only with passports, but also his own identity.