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The Good German
2006
· Movie
· 108 min
F
MEANRANK
50/100
Every rating
33–60
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 33, highest is Letterboxd on 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Details
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Writer
- Paul Attanasio
- Released
- 15 December 2006
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $5.9M
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