The Good German
The Good German is a 2006 action movie directed by
Steven Soderbergh, starring
George Clooney,
Cate Blanchett and
Tobey Maguire.
Fast Facts
- Release date: December 8, 2006
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Screenwriter: Paul Attanasio
- Producers: Ben Cosgrove and Gregory Jacobs
- Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
- MPAA rating: R
- Run time: 107 minutes
- Based on: Joseph Kanon's novel The Good German.
Plot Summary
Jake Geismer, played by George Clooney, is in Berlin to cover the Potsdam conference at the close of World War II, when he gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Cast
Critical Reception
"Soderbergh couldn't bring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman back from the dead, but he did the next best thing. He hired George Clooney, who exudes a timeless star quality and plays it hard and achingly romantic as Jake Geismar, an Army war correspondent."1
"Working from Joseph Kanon's source novel, Soderbergh has fashioned a painfully accurate pastiche of 1940s cinema. From the noirish lighting and high contrast compositions of The Third Man, to a final scene that borrows liberally from Casablanca, The Good German is a luminous love letter to the glory days of the picture house."2
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