Information
| Year: | 2006 |
| Rating: | 6.1(12975) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Steven Soderbergh |
| Actors: | Jack Thompson John Roeder George Clooney Tobey Maguire Dominic Comperatore Cate Blanchett |
| "If war is hell then what comes after?" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Steven Soderbergh | |
| Actors | |
| Jack Thompson | as Congressman Breimer |
| John Roeder | as General |
| George Clooney | as Jake Geismer |
| Tobey Maguire | as Tully |
| Dominic Comperatore | as Levi |
| Dave Power | as Lieutenant Schaeffer |
| Tony Curran | as Danny |
| Ravil Isyanov | as General Sikorsky |
| J. Paul Boehmer | as British Press Aide |
| Igor Korosec | as Russian Soldier |
| Boris Kievsky | as Russian Soldier |
| Vladimir Kulikov | as Russian Soldier |
| Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy | as Russian Soldier |
| Aleksandr Sountsov | as Russian Soldier |
| Beau Bridges | as Colonel Muller |
| Dean Misch | as German Boy |
| Justin Misch | as German Boy |
| Don Pugsley | as Gunther |
| Leland Orser | as Bernie |
| Tom Cummins | as British Interviewer |
| Brandon Keener | as Clerk |
| Gian Franco Tordi | as The Butcher |
| David Willis | as Franz Bettmann |
| Christian Oliver | as Emil Brandt |
| Michael Bravo | as Full Colonel |
| Paul Edney | as WWII U.S. Army Officer |
| Alec Gray | as German Boy |
| Zvonimir Hace | as Russian Soldier |
| Garth R. Hassell | as French Soldier |
| Thomas Hogeland | as Political Aid |
| Patrick Tatten | as Political Attache |
| Stephen Wheeler | as Russian Military Police Officer |
| Actresses | |
| Cate Blanchett | as Lena Brandt |
| Robin Weigert | as Hannelore |
| Alexandra Carter | as German Woman |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, German, Russian |
| Filming dates: | 27 September 2005 - ? |
| Budget: | USD 32,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 981,690 USD (28 January 2007) Netherlands - 10,818 EUR (8 April 2007) |
| Plot: | Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place" Written by Bob Ellsworth , Dick Howard and Russ Morgan Performed by William Marsh, Chris Ross, Johnny Britt and Gary Stockdale "You're Some Pretty Doll" Written by Clarence Williams Performed by William Marsh, Chris Ross, Johnny Britt and Gary Stockdale |
Goofs
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Revealing mistakes: When Tully is leaving Sikorsky's office, he is supposed to have a broken right arm. Yet, when he rises from the chair, you can see him push off the arm with his right arm (both arms, actually) and then open the door with his right hand. Fact errors: In two shots you see a double-deck bus. While these existed in Berlin at the time, this one is a London bus as the entry/exit platform is on the left rather than the right. Fact errors: Jeeps from WW2 were all manual transmission with a long gearshift lever. Tulley is seen driving a Jeep more than once after he has his right arm broken. That would have been impossible to do. Fact errors: SPOILER: After the slug is removed from Tully, it's said to be a ".32". In fact, the Russian Nagant pistol used to kill him was 7.62 mm, which is much closer to .30 caliber than .32 Fact errors: The newsreel speaker says the Potsdam conference takes place in "Emperor William's former palace". This is not correct. The Cecilienhof palace was built for the last crown prince of Germany, who lived there from 1917-19 and from 1926-45. DATE: 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. Continuity: SPOILER: The second time Tully is shown dead, the dirt on his face has a different pattern from the first time. Crew: Camera shadow on the prosecutors' uniform at 57:59 into the film. Continuity: Throughout the film, people constantly call George Clooney's character Geismar, with an "A". This is also how Tully spells it on his card when he meets Jake at the airport, and it is also how it is spelled in the book. Yet when Jake spells his own name to a soldier at Postdam, he spells it Geismer, with an "E". Revealing mistakes: Tully wears a hat with a silver border trim. This is an officer's hat, but Tully is clearly enlisted. CHAR: Upon Geismer's first visit to her apartment, Lena lights the stove and begins heating a kettle. Shortly, she announces she is going to bed, leaving the kettle over the stove's flame (as well as a lit candle on the table). |
Quotes
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Patrick Tully: [threatening a Jewish double amputee] Don't you jew me over the price! Danny: [on Tully] A little bit of a cunt. Patrick Tully: You can say what you want about the war... but, the war was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because when you have money, then, for the first time in your life, you underSTAND it, what money does for you. Where before all you understood was NOT having it? Money allows you to be who you truly are. Bernie Teitel: They want me to decide who the ardent Nazis were. Truth is, it was the whole country. Nobody's hands are clean. Bernie Teitel: This guy? Drove one of the gas vans. They'd load the Jews in back, run the exhaust inside. Bernie Teitel: [inhales] By the time they got where they were going, they were already dead. Very efficient. Driving to work, he killed more people than Al Capone in all his years in Chicago. But if you asked him, he isn't a murderer, he's a truck driver. And he still thinks that. Hannelore: It's easy now to say Hitler was wrong about the Jews. Let me tell you something. Nobody said he was wrong at the time. Lena Brandt: An affair has more rules than a marriage. Lena Brandt: You can never really get out of Berlin. |
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