The Good German (DVD) (US Version) DVD Region 1

One of mainstream cinema's most tirelessly inventive directors, Steven Soderbergh delivers another big-budget stylistic experiment with THE GOOD GERMAN. This time around, Soderbergh's target is 1940s film noir. Set in postwar Berlin, the atmospheric thriller is based on the acclaimed novel by Joseph Kanon. Frequent Soderbergh collaborator George Clooney plays Jake Geismer, an American military journalist who has returned to Berlin for the Potsdam Peace Conference. Jake's driver, Tully (Tobey Maguire), appears innocent upon first glance, but is in fact a major player in the corrupt Berlin underworld. He's also dating Jake's former flame, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), whose beauty continues to torment Jake. When Tully's cadaver washes ashore one day, Jake is shocked to discover that nobody wants to go public with the news. As much as he'd like to forget about Lena, he can't. Pretty soon, he's risking his life to help her flee the country. In shooting THE GOOD GERMAN, Soderbergh employed many of the actual filmmaking techniques that were used in the 1940s: black-and-white cinematography, elaborately constructed sets, wide master shots, and a sweeping score (compliments of Thomas Newman). The result is a film that looks and feels like it was made in a much earlier era, yet which contains the graphic language and content of an R-rated early 21st-century production.

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he movie works on its own, with a gleam of seductive corruption....The actors all come up with aces....It's pure moviegoing bliss." - Peter, Travers (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 12/14/2006

"Soderbergh has re-created not only the kind of story told in the 1940s, but the kind of technical production Hollywood gloried in more than half a century ago, too." -- Grade: B - Lisa, Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 12/22/2006

"It vividly recreates the soundstage artifice of Warner Bros' wartime noirs -- replete with melodramatic dynamics but minus the restrictive gentility of 1940s Hollywood." - Graham, Fuller (Film Comment Critic), Sight and Sound, 03/01/2007

4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith Blanchett channelling Marlene Dietrich in an extraordinary performance....Clooney reins it in, playing it with suitably blunt bemusement..." - Nev, Pierce (Total Film Critic), Total Film, 04/01/2007

4 stars out of 5 -- "Steven Soderbergh continues his genre-cruising career with this stylised b/w tribute to '40s noir..." - Chris, Roberts (Uncut Critic), Uncut, 12/01/2007

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Product Title:	The Good German (DVD) (US Version) 柏林暗戰 (DVD) (美國版) 柏林暗战 (DVD) (美国版) The Good German (US Version) The Good German (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Stephen Norrington (Actor) | Aaron Osborne (Actor) | Christopher Sheppard (Actor) | George Clooney (Actor) | Peter Andrews (Actor) | David Levien | Ted Raimi (Actor) | Naomi Shohan 史提芬羅寧頓 (Actor) | Aaron Osborne (Actor) | Christopher Sheppard (Actor) | 佐治 古尼 (Actor) | Peter Andrews (Actor) | David Levien | Ted Raimi (Actor) | Naomi Shohan Stephen Norrington (Actor) | Aaron Osborne (Actor) | Christopher Sheppard (Actor) | 佐治 古尼 (Actor) | Peter Andrews (Actor) | David Levien | Ted Raimi (Actor) | Naomi Shohan Stephen Norrington (Actor) | Aaron Osborne (Actor) | Christopher Sheppard (Actor) | ジョージ・クルーニー (Actor) | Ｐｅｔｅｒ Ａｎｄｒｅｗｓ (Actor) | Ｄａｖｉｄ Ｌｅｖｉｅｎ | Ted Raimi (Actor) | Naomi Shohan Stephen Norrington (Actor) | Aaron Osborne (Actor) | Christopher Sheppard (Actor) | 조지 클루니 (Actor) | Peter Andrews (Actor) | David Levien | Ted Raimi (Actor) | Naomi Shohan
Director:	Steven Soderbergh 史提芬蘇德堡 史提芬苏德堡 Ｓｔｅｖｅｎ Ｓｏｄｅｒｂｅｒｇｈ Steven Soderbergh
Producer:	David Levien | Naomi Shohan David Levien | Naomi Shohan David Levien | Naomi Shohan Ｄａｖｉｄ Ｌｅｖｉｅｎ | Naomi Shohan David Levien | Naomi Shohan
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Release Date:	2007-05-22
UPC Code:	012569736672
Language:	English, French, Spanish
Subtitles:	English, Spanish, French
Country of Origin:	United States
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Black & White
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	R (MPAA)
Publisher:	Warner Home Video
Package Weight:	110 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004775675

Director: Steven Soderbergh

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Surround 5.1 - English, Spansh, French/Quebequois,
Dolby Surround Stereo 2.0 - English
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Subtitles - English, French/Quebequois, Spanish - Optional