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The Good German (2006)

★ 5.8 · 344 ratings on TMDB

If war is Hell, then what comes after?

The Good German poster★ 5.8

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.

DirectorSteven Soderbergh
CastBeau Bridges, Cate Blanchett, Christian Oliver, George Clooney, Jack Thompson, Leland Orser
GenresDrama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Good German keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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