The Good German

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

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.

• 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

"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)