Rating: R
Genre:
Mystery
Theatrical Release: 12/15/2006(USA
Release Date: 05/22/2007
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 108 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly
mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author
Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and
Jake Geismar (
George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace in Berlin -- but he was once lovers with a mysterious woman named
Lena Brandt (
Cate Blanchett).
Lena is a lady with many secrets to hide, however, and now that the fighting has ceased, she has every intention of burying her sins and escaping her dark past. As
Jake searches for
Lena in war-torn Berlin with the assistance of American Army motor pool driver
Tully (
Tobey Maguire), the complex web of deceit woven by the desperate woman soon leads all three into the black market, which could prove either the ticket to
Lena's ultimate escape or the downfall of both her and her pursuers. Filmed entirely in the style of such Hollywood classics as
Casablanca,
The Good German was shot by director
Steven Soderbergh (under the pseudonym
Peter Andrews) using 1940s era lenses, sound-recording techniques, and a decidedly less-mobile camera.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
