JackThe Good German
November 23rd 2006 05:43
The Good German is a 2006 feature film adaptation of a novel by Joseph Kanon Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire, the film uses archival Russian footage and archived film from Corbis -- edited to blend with scenes shot on soundstages and on Universal Studios' backlot -- to tell a tale which on the surface is a murder mystery, but which weaves elements hinting at NASA's origins -- and the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists. Shot in Technicolor, (which allowed the use of faster film than available black-and-white film stocks, and afforded the ability to use green screen techniques) the film was reduced in post-production -- through the use of a D.I. -- to grainier black and white, to blend with the (carefully restored) archival material. It will be released in America on December 8th. The Australian release date is March 8th next year.
Jacob ('Jake') Geismar, an American war correspondent -- played by George Clooney -- returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers near the close of World War II. Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, (a black-marketeering American soldier, played with a furious intensity by Tobey Maguire) , being fished from a river eddy, suspiciously adjacent to the Potsdam conference grounds. The corpse is discovered to be in possession of 100,000 German reichsmarks -- which are later revealed to have been printed by the U.S occupying forces.
Geismar becomes entwined both in the mystery of his murdered driver, and with the clandestine search by both German and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt (the title character, played by Christian Oliver). Jake becomes more involved in both mysteries as his investigation intersects his search for Lena Brandt (played by Cate Blanchett), a German jew -- and Emil's wife -- with whom Jacob had been in a relationship prior to the war. Lena has survived the Holocaust by doing "what she had to" to stay alive -- early in the film this is assumed to be mere prostitution, but Lena holds a darker secret of complicity and guilt.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Produced by: Benjamin Waisbren, Frederic Brost
Written by: Paul Attanasio
Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
Distributed by: Warner Bros.,
Release date: USA - December 8th, 2006; Australia - March 8th, 2007; UK - March 9th, 2007
Runtime: 105 mins
Rating: USA - R; language, violence and some sexual content.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Good German.
Jacob ('Jake') Geismar, an American war correspondent -- played by George Clooney -- returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers near the close of World War II. Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, (a black-marketeering American soldier, played with a furious intensity by Tobey Maguire) , being fished from a river eddy, suspiciously adjacent to the Potsdam conference grounds. The corpse is discovered to be in possession of 100,000 German reichsmarks -- which are later revealed to have been printed by the U.S occupying forces.
Geismar becomes entwined both in the mystery of his murdered driver, and with the clandestine search by both German and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt (the title character, played by Christian Oliver). Jake becomes more involved in both mysteries as his investigation intersects his search for Lena Brandt (played by Cate Blanchett), a German jew -- and Emil's wife -- with whom Jacob had been in a relationship prior to the war. Lena has survived the Holocaust by doing "what she had to" to stay alive -- early in the film this is assumed to be mere prostitution, but Lena holds a darker secret of complicity and guilt.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Produced by: Benjamin Waisbren, Frederic Brost
Written by: Paul Attanasio
Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
Distributed by: Warner Bros.,
Release date: USA - December 8th, 2006; Australia - March 8th, 2007; UK - March 9th, 2007
Runtime: 105 mins
Rating: USA - R; language, violence and some sexual content.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article The Good German.
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