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The Good German

Year:
Duration:
105 min
Genres:
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.1
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2007-02-14
Filming Locations: Little Europe, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $32,000,000
Opening Weekend: $76,817 (USA) (17 December 2006)
Gross: $1,308,696 (USA) (12 April 2007)
Cast
Actor
Character
George Clooney
George Clooney
The Good German
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire
The Good German
Cate Blanchett
Lena Brandt
Beau Bridges
Colonel Muller
Tony Curran
Danny
Leland Orser
Bernie
Jack Thompson
Congressman Breimer
Robin Weigert
Hannelore
Ravil Isyanov
General Sikorsky
Christian Oliver
Emil Brandt
Dave Power
Lieutenant Schaeffer
Don Pugsley
Gunther
Dominic Comperatore
Levi
John Roeder
General
J. Paul Boehmer
British Press Aide
Igor Korosec
Russian Soldier
Boris Kievsky
Russian Soldier
Vladimir Kulikov
Russian Soldier
Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy
Russian Soldier
Aleksandr Sountsov
Russian Soldier
Dean Misch
German Boy
Justin Misch
German Boy
Tom Cummins
British Interviewer
Brandon Keener
Clerk
Gian Franco Tordi
The Butcher (as Gianfranco L'Amore Tordi)
David Willis
Franz Bettmann
Michael Bravo
Full Colonel (uncredited)
Alexandra Carter
German Woman (uncredited)
Paul Edney
WWII U.S. Army Officer (uncredited)
Megan Evanich
Dancer (uncredited)
Zvonimir Hace
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Garth R. Hassell
French Soldier (uncredited)
Thomas Hogeland
Political Aid (uncredited)
Ian Novotny
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Spiro Papas
Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Patrick Tatten
Political Attache (uncredited)
Stephen Wheeler
Russian Military Police Officer (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Kate Winslet was previously linked to the female lead.
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Cate Blanchett studied Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman in order to play a German character. Ingrid Bergman, however, was Swedish.
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The movie poster is an homage to a poster for the classic Warner Bros. film Casablanca (1942), as is the closing scene at the airport.
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Goofs
Camera shadow on the prosecutors' uniform at 57:59 into the film.
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Upon Geismer's first visit to her apartment, Lena lights the stove and begins heating a kettle. Shortly, she announces she is going to bed, leaving the kettle over the stove's flame (as well as a lit candle on the table).
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Colonel Muller says "a year ago I was up to my balls in mud at Anzio" The Anzio operation was over by May 12, 1944. The European part of the war ended May 8, 1945. It would have been a lot more then a year since he was fighting in Anzio.
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Quotes
Hannelore: It's easy now to say Hitler was wrong about the Jews. Let me tell you something. Nobody said he was wrong at the time.
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Danny: [on Tully] A little bit of a cunt.
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Bernie Teitel: They want me to decide who the ardent Nazis were. Truth is, it was the whole country. Nobody's hands are clean.
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Faq
Q
Is this movie based on a true story?
A
The specific story is fictitious, but it revolves around certain real-life events (and not just World War II).At the end of World War II, the United States Military did conduct a covert operation, codenamed "Operation Overcast" (later renamed "Operation Paperclip"), whose objective was to retrieve German scientists (and their families), some of whom might otherwise have stood trial for war crimes, and secretly bring them to the United States. This would have been in order to utilize their expertise, while also preventing the Soviet Union, who at the time were in a fierce technological competition with the US, from doing the same.The scientist character's name in the movie is Emil Brandt, which bears resemblance to a real person named Rudolf Emil H. Brandt. This real-life Brandt was part of the personal staff of the chief of German police (the "SS"), and helped oversee concentration camps and coordinate various scientific experiments, specifically those involving human experimentation. However, the similarity in the names could simply be a coincidence.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paper_Cliphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmlerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Brandt_(Nazi_physician)http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/search.php?DI=1&FieldFlag=1&PAuthors=95
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