The Good German

The Good German is a 2006 film adaptation of Joseph Kanons eponymous 2001 novel. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire. Set in Berlin following the Allied victory over the Nazis, it begins as a murder mystery but weaves in elements involving the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists in Operation Paperclip.

Jacob Jake Geismar George Clooney, an American war correspondent for The New Republic, returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II was over in Europe May 1945 but before hostilities ended in Asia August 1945. Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, a blackmarketeering American soldier named Tully Tobey Maguire, being fished from a river eddy, suspiciously adjacent to the Potsdam conference grounds. The corpse is discovered to be in possession of 50,000 German reichsmarks which are later revealed to have been printed by the U.S occupying forces.Geismar becomes entwined in both the mystery of his murdered driver and the clandestine search by both Soviet and American forces for the missing German Emil Brandt the title character, played by Christian Oliver. He becomes more involved in both mysteries as his investigation intersects with his search for Lena Brandt Cate Blanchett, a Jew and Emils wife with whom Geismar 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 prostitution, but Lena, in reality, holds a darker secret of complicity and guilt. ........

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