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Release Date:
14 February 2007 (France)
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Tagline:
If war is hell then what comes after? more
Plot:
While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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2 nominations
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The Black And White German
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Thompson | ... | Congressman Breimer |
 | John Roeder | ... | General |
 | George Clooney | ... | Jake Geismer |
 | Tobey Maguire | ... | Tully |
 | Cate Blanchett | ... | Lena Brandt |
 | Dominic Comperatore | ... | Levi |
 | Dave Power | ... | Lieutenant Schaeffer |
 | Tony Curran | ... | Danny |
 | Ravil Isyanov | ... | General Sikorsky |
 | 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 |
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Rated R for language, violence and some sexual content.
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105 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:MA |
UK:15 |
Finland:K-15 |
Ireland:15A |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Netherlands:12 |
Germany:12 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Sweden:11 |
Argentina:13 |
Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) |
Brazil:16 |
USA:R (No. 42615) |
South Korea:18 |
Norway:15 |
Canada:14A (Canadian Home Video rating)
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Cate Blanchett studied Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman in order to play a German character. Ingrid Bergman, however, was Swedish.
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Anachronisms: Sikorsky examines some currency, paying close attention to the serial numbers. He's shown examining the bills: their serial numbers are rendered in an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) typeface, which wouldn't be introduced until decades later the period of this film.
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Quotes:
Lena Brandt:
An affair has more rules than a marriage.
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References Casablanca (1942)
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Soundtrack:
You're Some Pretty Doll
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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.