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The Good German is a 2006 feature film adaptation of the novel by Joseph Kanon. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire. Set in Berlin following the Allied victory over the Nazis, it begins as a murder mystery, but weaves in elements hinting at NASA’s origins and the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists in Operation Paperclip.

The film is in black-and-white and is designed to imitate the appearance of film noir from the 1940s, although it also includes material - such as sex scenes and swearing - that would have been prohibited by the Production Code. Its poster is a homage to the poster for the classic film Casablanca (also a Warner Bros. film), as is the closing scene at an airport. The DVD release even presents the film in the outdated 4:3 aspect ratio that was normal for 1940s films, although the theatrical release used a modern widescreen ratio.

Jacob “Jake” Geismar, an American war correspondent — played by George Clooney — returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II was over in Europe (May 1945http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945#May) but before hostilities ended in Asia (August 1945http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945#August). Jacob witnesses his murdered driver, a black-marketeering American soldier named Tully (played by Tobey Maguire), being fished from a river eddy, suspiciously adjacent to the Potsdam conference grounds. The corpse is discovered to be in possession of 100,000 German reichsmarks — which are later revealed to have been printed by the U.S occupying forces.

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