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Fade to Black: Stefan Ruzowitzky, Director

Although Austria has Given Us Many Great Filmmakers Billy — Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Otto Preminger — Stefan Ruzowitzky is the first to pick up an Academy Award as an Austrian filmmaker. Interestingly, while the three aforementioned directors all fled Nazi Germany, Ruzowitzky has partially been their beneficiary in making a morally challenging film, The Counterfeiters, which is set in a concentration camp. “When I grew up in the '70s and '80s, the society in both Austria and Germany had the people involved still around, like Waldheim and others,” Ruzowitzky says. “At that time, it sure ...

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