The Good German movie

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.

:This article is about the film. For the phrase, see Good Germans.The Good German is a 2006 feature film adaptation of the novel by Joseph Kanon. 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 hinting at NASAs origins and the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists.The film is in black-and-white and is designed to imitate the appearance of films from the 1940s, although it also includes material - such as sex scenes and swearing - that would have been censored in the 1940s.

Its poster is an homage to the poster for the classic film Casablanca (also a Warner Bros. film), as is the closing scene at an airport. The DVD release even presents the film in the outdated 1.33:1 aspect ratio that was normal for 1940s films, although the theatrical release used a modern widescreen ratio.Title and themeThe films title alludes to the notion of "a good German", one who ostensibly was not to blame for allowing Hitler to do the evil that he did, and who did not see the Holocaust as it occurred before his eyes. Thematically, the film centers on guilt, and the unanswered question: "Is it possible to both survive the atrocities and yet to be unaware of and uncomplicit in them?"PlotJacob "Jake" Geismar, an American war correspondent ? played by George Clooney ? returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II was over in Europe () but before hostilities ended in Asia (). Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, a black-marketeering American soldier named Tully (played by Tobey Maguire), being fished from a river eddy, suspiciously adjacent to the Potsdam conference grounds. The corpse is discovered to be in possession of 100,000 German reichsmarks ? which are later revealed to have been printed by the U.S occupying forces.Geismar becomes entwined in both the mystery of his murdered driver and the clandestine search by both Soviet and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt (the title character, played by Christian Oliver).

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The Good German Cast

• Aleksandr Sountsov
• Boris Kievsky
• Cate Blanchett popular
• Dave Power
• Dominic Comperatore
• George Clooney popular
• Igor Korosec
• J. Paul Boehmer
• John Roeder
• Ravil Isyanov
• Tobey Maguire
• Tony Curran
• Vladimir Kulikov
• Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy