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The Good German is a 2006 feature film adaptation of a novel by Joseph Kanon. Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire, the film uses archival Russian footage and archived film from Corbis -- edited to blend with scenes shot on soundstages and on Universal Studios' backlot -- to tell a tale which on the surface is a murder mystery, but which weaves elements hinting at NASA's origins -- and the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists. Shot in Technicolor, (which allowed the use of faster film than available black-and-white film stocks, and afforded the ability to use green screen techniques) the film was reduced in post-production -- through the use of a D.I. -- to grainier black and white, to blend with the (carefully restored) archival material. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (500x741, 76 KB)[edit] Licensing This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ...
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Joseph Kanon (born 1946 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, best known for post World War II thriller and spy novels. ...
Paul Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television, who is currently an executive producer on the television series House. ...
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–1999) and his rise as an A-List movie star in...
Cate Blanchett (born Catherine Élise Blanchett on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. ...
Tobias Vincent Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. ...
Thomas Newman with his BMI Film Music Award Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film score composer. ...
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// Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing...
Joseph Kanon (born 1946 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, best known for post World War II thriller and spy novels. ...
Steven Soderbergh on the set of Solaris. ...
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–1999) and his rise as an A-List movie star in...
Cate Blanchett (born Catherine Élise Blanchett on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. ...
Tobias Vincent Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. ...
Corbis is a digital imaging/stock photography company founded by Bill Gates in 1989. ...
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Title and theme The film's title alludes to the concept of "A good German", ostensibly one who was not to blame for allowing Hitler to do the evil that he did, and who did not see see the Holocaust as it occurred before their 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?"
Plot Jacob ('Jake') Geismar, an American war correspondent -- played by George Clooney -- returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers near the close of World War II. Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, (a black-marketeering American soldier, 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. A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone. ...
Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...
Clement Atlee, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945 The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. ...
The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis Powers during the Second World War. ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The black market or underground market is the part of economic activity involving illegal dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise or services illegally. ...
Clement Atlee, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945 The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. ...
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Geismar becomes entwined both in the mystery of his murdered driver, and with the clandestine search by both Russian and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt (the title character, played by Christian Oliver). Jake becomes more involved in both mysteries as his investigation intersects his search for Lena Brandt (played by Cate Blanchett), a German Jew -- and Emil's wife -- with whom Jacob had been in a relationship prior to the war. Lena has survived the Holocaust by doing "what she had to" to stay alive -- early in the film this is assumed to be mere prostitution, but Lena holds a darker secret of complicity and guilt.
Cast George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994–1999) and his rise as an A-List movie star in...
Cate Blanchett (born Catherine Élise Blanchett on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. ...
Tobias Vincent Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. ...
Tony Curran and Ross Kemp in TV series Ultimate Force Tony Curran (born 13 December 1968, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) is an actor. ...
Leland Orser in Alien: Resurrection Leland Orser (born August 6, 1960) is an American film and television actor. ...
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