Which 2007 Austrian film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film?

The 2007 Austrian film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film was The Counterfeiters.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters is an Austrian-German drama about Operation Bernhard, a secret Nazi plan during World War II to destabilize Britain by flooding its economy with forged British currency. The film centers on Jewish prisoners forced to produce counterfeit money at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

The story was inspired by the memoir of Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned after forging baptismal certificates intended to help Jews escape deportation. Burger later became one of the prisoners involved in Operation Bernhard, and his experiences informed the film's moral conflict between survival, resistance, and complicity.

The film won at the 80th Academy Awards, presented in 2008 for films released in 2007. It was Austria's first Oscar win in the category then officially called Best Foreign Language Film. The award is sometimes confused with later winners such as Argentina's The Secret in Their Eyes or Germany's The Lives of Others.