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One of mainstream cinema's most tirelessly inventive directors, Steven Soderbergh delivers another big-budget stylistic experiment with THE GOOD GERMAN. This time around, Soderbergh's target is 1940s film noir. Set in post-war Berlin, the atmospheric thriller is based on the acclaimed novel by Joseph Kanon. Frequent Soderbergh collaborator George Clooney plays Jake Geismer, an American military journalist who has returned to Berlin for the Potsdam Peace Conference. JakeÆs driver, Tully (Tobey Maguire), appears innocent upon first glance, but is in fact a major player in the corrupt Berlin underworld. HeÆs also dating JakeÆs former flame, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), whose beauty continues to torment Jake. When TullyÆs cadaver washes ashore one day, Jake is shocked to discover that nobody wants to go public with the news. As much as heÆd like to forget about Lena, he canÆt. Pretty soon, heÆs risking his life to help her flee the country. In shooting THE GOOD GERMAN, Soderbergh employed many of the actual filmmaking techniques that were used in the 1940s: black-and-white cinematography, elaborately constructed sets, wide master shots, and a sweeping score. The result is a film that looks and feels like it was made in a much earlier era, yet which contains the graphic language and content of an early 21st-century production.Product Identifiers
ProducerGregory Jacobs, Ben Cosgrove
EAN7321900736664
eBay Product ID (ePID)59983095
Product Key Features
ActorBeau Bridges, Tony Curran, Tobey Maguire, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett
Film/TV TitleThe Good German
DirectorSteven Soderbergh
LanguageEnglish
Run Time103 Mins
Release Year2007
FormatDVD
FeaturesInteractive Menu
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ComposerThomas Newman
ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - Soderbergh has re-created not only the kind of story told in the 1940s, but the kind of technical production Hollywood gloried in more than half a century ago, too, Total Film - With Blanchett channelling Marlene Dietrich in an extraordinary performance....Clooney reins it in, playing it with suitably blunt bemusement, Sight And Sound - It vividly recreates the soundstage artifice of Warner Bros' wartime noirs -- replete with melodramatic dynamics but minus the restrictive gentility of 1940s Hollywood
ScreenwriterPaul Attanasio
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleThe Good German
Director of PhotographyPeter Andrews
WriterJoseph Kanon
Consumer AdviceContains strong language, moderate nudity and sexual violence