Good German, The
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Classification
15
Genres
Action, Drama
Description
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).
Cast
Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Tony Curran, Tobey Maguire
Quotes
"Haunting and hypnotic, it's pure movie-going bliss." - Peter Travers / Rolling Stone "Engrossing and stylish. Clooney and Blanchett are so good together it would make Bogie and Bergman proud." - Pete Hammond, MAXIM "Two thumbs up." - Richard Roeper and Aisha Tyler, Guest Critic, Ebert & Roeper