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George Clooney (Actor), Cate Blanchett (Actor), Steven Soderbergh (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Mystery & Thrillers
Format	AC-3, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Black & White, DVD, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Color
Contributor	Tony Curran, J. Paul Boehmer, Tobey Maguire, Paul Attanasio, Cate Blanchett, Igor Korosec, Boris Kievsky, Joseph Kanon, Dave Power, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Dominic Comperatore, John Roeder, Ravil Isyanov, Jack Thompson See more
Language	English, German, Russian
Runtime	1 hour and 45 minutes

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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 beautiful, 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).

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 0.01 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Steven Soderbergh
Media Format ‏ : ‎ AC-3, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Black & White, DVD, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Color
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 22, 2007
Actors ‏ : ‎ George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Jack Thompson, John Roeder, Tobey Maguire
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Warner Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000OY8NBK
Writers ‏ : ‎ Joseph Kanon, Paul Attanasio
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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John D. Sens

Do what it takes to get the good scientists.

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2015

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This is a rather complex film. The premise is that immediately following the end of WWII in Europe, the Allies, the Americans were focusing on the Soviet Union as the new adversary and sought to use German scientists for technological development. A problem was getting around the unfortunate fact that many had been Nazis. One means of getting around this hurdle was to take the position that such scientists were non-political and not involved in atrocities. To achieve this, evidence of involvement in atrocities needed to be suppressed. That's what the film is about.

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A Good Post-War Murder Thriller

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2020

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The Good German takes place amidst the rubble and ruin of Berlin, in the summer of 1945. It's a murder mystery, but there is a personal back story and an international angle all tied in with the murder too.

The acting is good and it's filmed in artistic black and white, like one of those late 1940s movies. Cate Blanchett is excellent as the German lady around which the murder, love interest, and international angle revolves.

What knocks this movie out of the five-star category is that the plot gets too convoluted and hard to follow. It just becomes a mess of ulterior motives and lies all tangled together. Characters suddenly know some hidden fact, or suddenly know that someone's lying, and this movie doesn't explain how they know it. Characters get assaulted and killed, and it's not clear what for. No one is held accountable for anything.

Oh, and George Clooney's journalist character is pretty unlikely... he's sent by a magazine to cover the Potsdam Conference but he never works one single minute. He gets beaten up and hit in the face about four or five times, yet his face never bruises or swells. And his final scene with Cate Blanchett is a flat-out rip off of the final scene in the movie Casablanca.

But despite its flaws, The Good German is a good movie that pretty accurately portrays the misery, ruin, corruption, violence, and international scheming in post-war Berlin right after the war. Definitely worth a watch.

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Luella Hatkewicz

good german

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2014

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read the book, loved loved it...can't wait to see if the film compares....i love to read the book first and then see the film...so happy i found it on amazon...waiting till my friends all get back from their travels to get together to watch it....hope it measures up to the book...i do have to say tho...the dvd was rattleing around in the container, i thought it might be in pieces , so when i opened it, was happy to see it had just come loose from disc holder...

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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024

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Reine des Coeurs

Was there another book of the same title....

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2007

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...or was this badly re-invented tripe the best that Soderbergh could do with Kanon's novel? Lena, the female lead of book/film - rape victim and NOT a prostitute - is converted from a war weary, emotionally vulnerable yet stable and admirable lead into a vague, emotionally dull, unstable Gestapo informant by way of Marlene Dietrich impersonator. Tully, the character about whom little is known yet all action centers around, is turned into a noir caricature, who is entirely unsympathetic and loathsome. Jake, the central character and lead, is (in the novel) always a step and thought ahead of the other characters and of the action; in the novel, he seems to be the last person in the know.

Noir as a genre can and should be explored in modern cinema, but all this film seems to show is how bad parody and caricature can make even the most incidental wartime story appear. Cinematography aside (which was the only thing commented on favorably by the majority of critics), this was the second worst Soderbergh film I've sat through. It may be time for SS to temporarily, or perhaps permanently, disassociate himself from Clooney.

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L. Ford Ballard, Jr.

Excellent film exploration of a morally questionable period and the shades of grey.

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2013

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The end of WW 2 left so many world issues hanging. This complexity of incredible diverse moral situation is well explored. The way they recreated the end of Germany and the destruction of Berlin is beautifully done in black and white. Having read so much off this era, I came to love the movie and watch it once a year to make me remember there was no black and white, but millions of shades of grey as many as there were disposed people.

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That ACPress Guy

Not sure how much relatively young viewers will appreciate the book or the movie, but it is really something.

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2016

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OK, the book, or in my case the audiobook, is better. But you won't noticed the dropped or combined characters in the film if you have not read it. A tense murder mystery placed at a very, very tense time when Berlin was in ruin, a pack of cigarettes could get you almost anything, and the Russians and Yanks were scrambling to grab Nazi rocket scientists. There are many sub-plots, not the least being the ability of all sides to "look the other way" and set up scientists with comfortable jobs and lives when they should have been tried and hung.

Clooney is great as a lovesick reporter hoping to find the woman he knew before the war, refusing to see how much had changed.

This is not a chick flick. It is in glorious black and white, using vintage lenses to evoke the look of 1940's films (and to work well with old footage.)

Not sure how much relatively young viewers will appreciate the book or the movie, but it is really something. Watch it along with "The Monument Men!"

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Esar Shvartz

A unique, outstanding noir

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2010

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Unless you are a serious noir buff, you have to be over 75 to appreciate this extraordinary movie. Sure, its a homage to the old black and white noirs of the 40's and its been criticised for not doing a perfect job of it. Who cares? Its the only movie combining post war Berlin, division of Europe, the coming cold war, and Nazi atrocities into a nostalgic noir package. Yes, its Casablanca and the third man combined. A noir gem.

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Replacing for my collection

Reviewed in Canada on October 29, 2023

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Excellent production ; I enjoy this DVD very much ..

fred

Profitez de la guerre, la paix sera terrible !

Reviewed in France on December 20, 2020

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Un journaliste de l'US Army retrouve son ex-maitraise, femme d'un savant Nazi rechercher par tous les camps (vainceur), un sergent chauffeur roi du marché noir jouisseur inconscient. Un général Russe au role ambivalent.
Tout les ingrédiants du film noir d'après guerre, bien servi par l'ensemble des acteurs.
Le tourner en NB, et aussi la bonne idée de ce film.

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Periodo storico II Guerra Mondiale

Reviewed in Italy on January 21, 2020

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Azione suspense. Finale inaspettato.
Inutile sottolineare la magnifica interpretazione di Cate Blanchett. Bravo George Clooney

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藤澤美智子

戦争の悲惨さに加え、無意味のこと。

Reviewed in Japan on April 21, 2021

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最近の作品でありながら、作品のリアルさを出すためだと思うが、白黒にしたのは良かったかも。

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Paul Markus

The Good German

Reviewed in Germany on April 13, 2016

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Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs hat eigentlich keine eine ganz saubere Vest angehabt, die Amerikaner auch nicht (bin Amerikaner, der über die Hälfte seines Lebens in Deutschland erfahrungsreich und ja glücklich gelebt hat). Es scheint mir, daß der einzige in dieser Geschichte, der einigermaßen "unschuldig" war, war George Cluney. Ein sehr guter Film, der auch in allen Schulen sowohl in Deutschland als in Amerika gezeigt werden soll.

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