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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