While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 5 nominations total
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- TriviaThe film was shot as if it had been made in 1945. Only studio back lots, sets and local Los Angeles locations were used. No radio microphones were used, the film was lit with only incandescent lights and period lenses were used on the cameras. The actors were directed to perform in a presentational, stage style. The only allowance was the inclusion of nudity, violence and cursing which would have been forbidden by the Production Code.
- GoofsTully wears a hat with a silver border trim. This is an officer's hat, but Tully is clearly enlisted.
- Quotes
Lena Brandt: An affair has more rules than a marriage.
- Crazy creditsAll the logos appear in black and white, while the Warner Brothers logo appears in the forties old style
- ConnectionsEdited from A Foreign Affair (1948)
- SoundtracksSomebody Else Is Taking My Place
Written by Bob Ellsworth, Dick Howard and Russ Morgan
Performed by William Marsh, Chris Ross, Johnny Britt and Gary Stockdale
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I was so aware of the attempted style of the film that I could hardly concentrate on anything else. The look, oh, the look. Clooney and Blanchet - Bergman, Bogart, shadows and fog. Pity. It could have been a tense war time thriller - Who is he? Where is he? What is it about? I was always mesmerized by questions like that on films that "The Good German" seems to want to emulate. Sodebergh is one my most recent favorites and one of the main reasons is because he is unafraid of taking chances. The question is, what are the chances taken for? I get more "Bubble" - sort of - than "The Good German" Blanchet is great to watch, she's Hildegarde Kneff and/or a lip-full Gloria Grahame but other than admire her right there on the screen I wasn't permitted to feel anything. George Clooney is just as solid in black and white as he is in color and Tobey McGuire - well, the best I can say is that his contribution is brief. What I took with me as the most valuable aspect of this experiment is/was Thomas Newman's classically colorful score.
- claudette-crivelli
- Mar 3, 2007
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- El buen alemán
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- Budget
- $32,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,308,696
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $76,817
- Dec 17, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $5,914,908
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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