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The Good German (2006)

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R | 1 hr 48 mins | Thriller, Romance, Period, Foreign, Adaptation, Mystery | Released: 12/15/2006 |Box Office Total: $1.3M

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Synopsis:

Berlin, 1945. U.S. war correspondent Jake Geismer has just arrived to cover the upcoming Potsdam Peace Conference, where Allied leaders will meet to determine the fate of a vanquished Germany and a newly liberated Europe--and, in the process, carve up what's left of any value for themselves. It's not Jake's first visit to Berlin. He once managed a news bureau here. He once fell in love here. But that seems a lifetime ago as he takes in the staggering devastation on the jeep ride from the airport to his hotel in the American zone. Jake's driver, Corporal Tully, exudes small-town American charm--an eager, guileless, good-natured kid from the Midwest. In reality, he's corrupt to the core, bartering anything and anyone, and playing all sides for the highest price. But that's not unusual. Everyone in Berlin has a secret now. Everyone is working an angle to get what they need: money, power, survival--or just a way out. Tully's black market dealings don't interest Jake, but Tully's girlfriend does. She's Lena Brandt, Jake's former love, although somehow, now, not quite the person he once knew. She has been irrevocably changed by the war, the hardship of life in this ruined city and the burden of her own secrets. When Tully ends up in the Russian zone with 100,000 marks in his pocket and a bullet in his back, Jake finds himself drawn into the mystery of this murder, and the bigger mystery of why both the American and Russian authorities look the other way. The deeper his investigation takes him, the more it leads him back to Lena. Jake discovers that it is nearly impossible to unearth the truth in a time and place where people are still reeling from the horrors of the war and desperate to salvage their humanity in the shadow of the often unbearable knowledge of what they did to survive.

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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
12/15/2006

Studio	Credit
Warner Bros. Pictures	Studio
Director	Credit
Steven Soderbergh	Director
Cast	Credit
George Clooney	Jake Geismer
Cate Blanchett	Lena Brandt
Tobey Maguire	Tully
Robin Weigert	Hannelore
Dave Power	Lieutenant Schaeffer
Leland Orser	Bernie Teitel
Tony Curran	Danny
Dominic Comperatore	Levi
Beau Bridges	Colonel Muller
Jack Thompson	Congressman Breimer
Ravil Isyanov	General Sikorsky
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
Don Pugsley	Gunther
Tom Cummins	British Interviewer
Brandon Keener	Clerk
Gianfranco L'Amore Tordi	The Butcher
David Willis	Franz Bettmann
Christian Oliver	Emil Brandt
Production Credits	Credit
Benjamin Waisbren	Executive Producer
Ben Cosgrove	Producer
Frederic W Brost	Executive Producer
Gregory Jacobs	Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Section 8	Production Company
Virtual Studios	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group	Domestic Video Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures International	Foreign Theatrical Distributor
Locations
Los Angeles, California, USA
Writer	Credit
Paul Attanasio	Screenplay
Joseph Kanon	Source Material
Accounting	Credit
Sonya Lunsford	Production Accountant
Joanie Selden	Accountant - Payroll Accountant
Jason Hinkel	Assistant Accountant
Art Department	Credit
David Tye	Greensman - Lead Sculptor
Michael Carroll	Model Maker
C Scott Baker	Set Designer
Phil Messina	Production Designer
Scott Bobbitt	Lead Person - Leadman
Wylie Young Griffin	Art Department Coordinator
Hank Giardina	Painter - Paint Supervisor
Kristen Toscano Messina	Set Decorator
Doug Meerdink	Art Director
Richard Andrade	Set Dresser
Steve Borgese	Greensman - Greens Coordinator
Easton Smith	Art Director
William J Law III	Set Designer
Ryan P Dreyer	Set Dresser
Chris Zimmerman	Painter - Standby Painter
Suzan Wexler	Art Director
Merdyce C McClaran	Set Dresser
Eric Ramirez	Set Dresser
Robert Sica	Set Dresser
Ryan Steffen	Set Dresser
Erik Norville	Set Dresser - On-Set Dresser
Casting	Credit
Debra Zane	Casting Director
Tannis Vallely	Casting Associate
Rich King	Extras Casting
Jeremy Rich	Casting Associate
Craft Services	Credit
Jeff Winn	Craft Service
Film Camera	Credit
Glenn Brown	Assistant Camera - Additional First Assistant Camera
Melinda Sue Gordon	Photography - Still Photographer
Peter Andrews	Director of Photography
Luciano Blotta	Video Assist/Playback - Video Assistant Operator
Paul Toomey	Loader - Film Loader
Ed Twiford	Colorist - Digital Film Colorist
Ed Twiford	Dailies - Dailies Colorist
Cris Lombardi	Camera Operator
Steven Meizler	Camera Assistant - A Camera First Assistant
Tom Jordan	Camera Assistant - A Camera Second Assistant
Music	Credit
Bill Bernstein	Music Editor
Bob Ellsworth	Song
Greg Hayes	Music Engineer - Assistant Engineer
William Marsh	Song Performer
Armin Steiner	Score Mixing - Music Scoring Mixer
Thomas Pasatieri	Orchestrations
Thomas Newman	Original Music - Music
Tim Lauber	Music Engineer - Assistant Engineer
Tommy Vicari	Score Mixing - Music Scoring Mixer
Dick Howard	Song
Michael Zainer	Music Editor
Chris Ross	Song Performer
Johnny Britt	Song Performer
Russ Morgan	Song
Gary Stockdale	Song Performer
Clarence Williams	Song
Physical Effects	Credit
Brian Avery	Stunts
John Robotham	Stunt Coordinator
Joni Avery	Stunts
Matt Baker	Stunts
Jeffrey Brockton	Stunts
Jodi Brockton	Stunts
Hal Burton	Stunts
Chad Cleven	Stunts
Eliza Coleman	Stunts
David D Darling	Stunts
Jeremy Fitzgerald	Stunts
Mickey Giacomazzi	Stunts
Sean Graham	Stunts
Tabby Hanson Graham	Stunts
Jim Hart	Stunts
Gene Hartline	Stunts
John Moio	Stunts
Eric Norris	Stunts
Carrick O'Quinn	Stunts
Vladimir Orlov	Stunts
Michael P Owen	Stunts
Jeff Ramsey	Stunts
Jason Rodriguez	Stunts
Bill Willens	Stunts
Production Management	Credit
Jessica Lowrey	DGA Trainee
Annie Welles	Script Supervisor
Gregory Jacobs	Assistant Director
Robin Le Chanu	Post-Production Supervisor - Postproduction Supervisor
Guy Morrison	Assistant Location Manager
Kate Kelly	Production Coordinator
Frederic W Brost	Unit Production Manager
Quentin Halliday	Location Manager
Trey Batchelor	Assistant Director
Ken Lavet	Location Manager
Michael LaCorte	Production Coordinator
Monica De Armond Borde	Post-Production Supervisor
Justin Duncan	Assistant Location Manager
Jody Spilkoman	Assistant Director - Second 2nd Assistant Director
Basti Van Der Woude	Assistant Director - Additional Second Assistant Director
Publicity	Credit
Spooky Stevens	Publicity
Sound	Credit
Ross Levy	Sound - Utility Sound Technician
Larry Mah	Audio
Randy Johnson	Boom Operator
Alicia Stevenson	Foley
Billy Theriot	Assistant Sound Editor
Paul Ledford	Sound Mixer - Production Sound Mixer
David Betancourt	Foley Mixer
Larry Blake	Rerecording Mixer
Larry Blake	Rerecording Mixer - Supervising Sound Editor
Dawn Fintor	Foley
Visual Effects	Credit
Kevin Hannigan	Special Effects Coordinator
Werner Hahnlein	Special Effects Foreman - Special Effects General Foreman
Blair Foord	Special Effects Technician
Heather Elisa Hill	Visual Effects - Visual Effects Coordinator
Melissa Brockman	Visual Effects Producer
Dan Levitan	Compositing Supervisor
Thomas J Smith	Visual Effects Supervisor
Robert Stromberg	Matte Painter - Matte Painting Supervisor
Greg Oehler	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Artist
Gregg Schaublin	Digital Effects - Digital Intermediate Producer
Michael D Roundy	Special Effects Foreman
David Rey	Compositing Supervisor
Ron Barr	Digital Effects - Digital Conform and Opitcals
Bill Gilman	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Artist
Erich Mingenbach	Special Effects Technician
Vaughn Williams	Special Effects Technician
Tom Daws	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Artist
Christopher Ryan	Digital Effects Artist - Digital Artist
Wardrobe Hair Makeup	Credit
Louise Frogley	Costume Designer
Tom Cummins	Costumer
Shandra Beri	Set Costumer
Lynda Foote	Costume Supervisor
Julie Hewett	Makeup - Make-Up Department Head
Garet Reilly-Batchelor	Key Costumer
Waldo Sanchez	Hair - Hair Department Head
Mary Etta Lang	Wardrobe - Textile Artist
Frida S Aradottir	Hair Stylist
Michelle Vittone-McNeil	Makeup Artist
Heba Thorisdottir	Makeup
Marina Hart	Hair Stylist
Monica S Haynes	Costumer
Emanuel Millar	Hair
Dennis McCarthy	Key Costumer
Zoe Hay	Makeup Artist
Jason M Moore	Set Costumer
James Spensley	Costumer
Rita Bellissimo	Hair Stylist
Kenn Smiley	Key Costumer
Julie Kristy	Makeup Artist
Arturo Rojas	Hair Stylist

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