MONEY Colloquium Film Series at Lebanon Valley College Presents "The Counterfeiters"

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A scene from "The Counterfeiters," which will be screened by Lebanon Valley College at Annville's Allen Theatre on March 27.

ANNVILLE, PA (03/06/2012)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College will present a screening of "The Counterfeiters" March 27 at the Allen Theatre in Annville at 5:30 p.m. The film is part of LVC's Colloquium Series on MONEY. Tickets are $1 for non-LVC students and $3 for the general public. Admission is free to LVC students.

"The Counterfeiters" is set in Berlin in 1936. The story follows the life of Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, a Jewish king of counterfeiters living in Nazi Germany. Upon being arrested and thrown into a concentration camp, Sorowitsch lives off his counterfeiting talents and is soon forced to produce fake foreign currency for the Nazis. In spite of his imprisonment, Sorowitsch and his team are given luxury barracks in an upgraded concentration camp for their services. Sorowitsch must decide if he should use his skills to save his own skin or stop aiding the Nazi party's efforts.

MONEY is a yearlong integrated series of guest speakers, roundtable discussions, films, and courses that consider society's idea of money. It will involve presentations on problems such as unemployment, poverty, and the gender wage gap, as well as discussions on tax policy, the job market and entrepreneurship, and finally a theoretical consideration of the very idea of money, the ideology of the free market, and the morality and theology of capitalism.