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Name: The Good German
Released: 2006-12-15
Cast: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran

The Good German

R
1h 48m
2006

34%

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Who knows what American journalist Jake Geismer (George Clooney) expected to find in postwar Berlin? Peace, maybe. Or at least a story. But certainly not Lena (Cate Blanchett), his embittered one-time love. And not the trail of secrecy and deception that leads from Lena to the scheming young corporal (Tobey Maguire) who's her new lover...and to a murder no one seems interested in solving. Except Jake. Steven Soderbergh directs three of today's top talents in this zigzag thriller that's both an atmospheric homage to 1940s filmmaking and a deft modern film noir. The Good German is "haunting and hypnotic, it's pure moviegoing bliss" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Producer:

Ben Cosgrove, Gregory Jacobs, Benjamin Waisbren, Frederic W. Brost

Writer:

Paul Attanasio

Cast:

George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran, Leland Orser, Jack Thompson, Robin Weigert, Ravil Isyanov, Christian Oliver, Dave Power, Don Pugsley, Dominic Comperatore

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

34%

Critics Consensus: Though Steven Soderbergh succeeds in emulating the glossy look of 1940s noirs, The Good German ultimately ends up as a self-conscious exercise in style that forgets to develop compelling characters.

Reviews

Sundays with Cate

Murtada Elfadl

Cate Blanchett's most underrated performance and the best she's looked on screen.

In the finest tradition of some of our most celebrated films of all time, The Good German, is destined to join their ranks as a classic and timeless tale of lies, love, intrigue, political and moral corruption.

There's a certain distance with which you view the characters, the involvement is not such that they stay with you after the film.