Today’s movie is a period film noir with a scene that happens on July 20. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE GOOD GERMAN
Captain Jacob "Jake" Geismar a correspondent for the New Republic goes to Berlin for the Potsdam Conference. It turns out his driver Corporal Patrick Tully’s mistress is Geismar’s pre-war mistress Lena Brandt. It turns out everyone is looking for her supposedly dead husband Emil Brandt. Brandt knows that his boss, Franz Bettman knew that the SS was using slave labor to build his rockets. The US army wants to send Bettman to America to build rockets. On July 20, 1945 [1:06:52 to 1:17:08] President Truman gives his “Fighting for Peace” speech in Berlin. Emil is murdered to prevent his exposing Bettman as a war criminal. Geimar uses Brandt’s notes to trade for Lena’s freedom. It turns out that Lena, who is Jewish survived before she married Brandt, an SS officer by turning over a dozen Jews to the Nazis and Geismar lets her leave without him.
Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992) at pages 428-9 give the date of this speech
Producers - Ben Cosgrove and Gregory Jacobs
Director - Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter - Paul Attanasio
Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Original Score Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards.
Runtime – 1 hour 45 minutes
Released - December 15, 2006
Starring –
George Clooney as Captain Jacob "Jake" Geismar
Cate Blanchett as Lena Brandt
Tobey Maguire as Corporal Patrick Tully
Beau Bridges as Colonel Muller
Tony Curran as Danny
Leland Orser as Captain Bernie Teitel
Jack Thompson as Congressman Breimer
Robin Weigert as Hannelore
Ravil Isyanov as General Sikorsky
Dave Power as Lieutenant Hasso Schaeffer
Christian Oliver as Emil Brandt
Dominic Comperatore as Levi
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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