The Good German

(2006)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 365 votes

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War

Year: 2006

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Стивен Содерберг

Cast: Джордж Клуни, Кейт Бланшетт, Тоби Магуайр, Бо Бриджес, Тони Карран, Лиланд Орсер, Джек Томпсон, Робин Вайгерт, Равиль Исьянов, Christian Oliver

Plot

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.

Berlin, July 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference and issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.