French biopic. Original title: L’affaire Bojarski
This is the biography of Czesław “Jan” Bojarski, the GOAT of counterfeiters.
He became famous in the 1960s for his extremely accurate counterfeit of the 100-franc ‘Bonaparte’ banknote, prompting the newspaper Le Parisien to call him ‘The Cezanne of counterfeit money’ According to Christian Porcheron, director of Musée de la Fausse Monnaie (The Museum of Fake Money), ‘He was the greatest counterfeiter of the 20th century. He has no peer.’
I thought I had gone to the Museum of Fake Money when I was in Paris, but it turned out that the museum I went to was a fake. Talk about irony.
Experts from the Bank of France believed they were dealing with a powerful criminal organisation with significant technical resources and the skills of several specialists, yet Ceslaw Bojarski produced his fake notes entirely alone, using machines he invented and constructed himself (out of fear of being caught when buying them). Unusually for a counterfeiter, he developed and produced all his own paper, with an authentic watermark, as well as his own inks, and engraved his own copper printing plates
