MOVIE · 2006

The Good German

DramaMysteryRomanceThrillerWar108 min

American war correspondent Jake Geismer arrives in Berlin just after World War II and finds himself chasing two stories at once: the body of a GI pulled from a lake during the Potsdam negotiations, and the reappearance of the German woman he once loved. George Clooney is Jake, moving through a city shaped by rubble, occupation, and black-market deals, while Cate Blanchett's Lena is now tied to a calculating young corporal played by Tobey Maguire. As Jake pushes into a murder no one seems eager to solve, the case connects to wartime secrets and the uneasy alliances taking shape in the first days of the postwar world.