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• The Good German is a 2006 action movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Tobey Maguire.

• Fast Facts

  1. Release date: December 8, 2006
  2. Director: Steven Soderbergh
  3. Screenwriter: Paul Attanasio
  4. Producers: Ben Cosgrove and Gregory Jacobs
  5. Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
  6. MPAA rating: R
  7. Run time: 107 minutes
  8. 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

  • George Clooney as Jake Geismer
  • Cate Blanchett as Lena Brandt
  • Tobey Maguire as Tully
  • Beau Bridges as Colonel Muller
  • Tony Curran as Danny
  • Leland Orser as Bernie

• 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."*Rolling Stone: The Good German (November 21, 2006)

  "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."BBC: The Good German (2007) (March 8, 2007)

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  George Clooney | Cate Blanchett | Tobey Maguire | Steven Soderbergh | Warner Bros. | The Informant

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