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The Good German is a american film of genre Drama directed by Steven Soderbergh released in USA on 19 january 2007 with George Clooney
The Good German (2007)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 january 2007
Length 1h43
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating59%
The Good German is a 2006 film adaptation of Joseph Kanon's eponymous 2001 novel. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire. Set in Berlin following the Allied victory over the Nazis, it begins as a murder mystery but weaves in elements involving the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists in Operation Paperclip.
The film was shot in black-and-white and is designed to imitate the appearance of film noir from the 1940s, although it also includes material – such as sex scenes and swearing – that would have been prohibited by the Production Code. Its poster is an homage to the poster for the classic film Casablanca (1942, also a Warner Bros. film), as is the closing scene at an airport. The DVD release presents the film in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio which declined in use from about 1953, though the theatrical release used the slightly more modern but still unusual 1.66:1 ratio.
The film received mixed reviews and grossed $5.9 million worldwide against a budget of $32 million.
Synopsis
Jacob "Jake" Geismar (George Clooney), an American war correspondent for The New Republic, returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II was over in Europe (May 1945) but before hostilities ended in Asia (August 1945). Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, a black-marketeering American soldier named Tully (Tobey Maguire), being fished from a river eddy, suspiciously adjacent to the Potsdam conference grounds. The corpse is discovered to be in possession of 50,000 German reichsmarks — which are later revealed to have been printed by the U.S occupying forces.Actors
George Clooney
(Jake Geismar)
Cate Blanchett
(Lena Brandt)
Tobey Maguire
(Tully)
Beau Bridges
(Colonel Muller)
Tony Curran
(Danny)
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