The Good German

Cornedbeef · 12-12-2006, 02:22 PM

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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.

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

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**fluff** · 12-12-2006, 02:34 PM

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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.

I'd be interested in seeing what Tobey Maguire can do with this character.
I don't know that I've seen enough of him in varied roles to know whether I automatically think he'd be believable.
Cate Blanchett is playing his girlfriend, which seems like a strange couple, but Cate can pretty much pull off any role.

12-12-2006, 02:22 PM	#1
Cornedbeef FORT Fogey Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: The Twilight Zone Posts: 1,652	The Good German http://www.hollywood.com/ 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. 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