In 2006, Steven Soderbergh released “The Good German,” a black-and-white film set in postwar Berlin, that was in dialog with one of the greatest films ever made: “Casablanca.” Is it an homage, a deconstruction—or something else entirely?

Keir’s one-sentence summary:

When war correspondent Jake Geismer returns to Berlin after the fall of the Third Reich, he finds his own hard-earned cynicism is no match for the reality—as he investigates a murder of an American black marketeer, he is robbed, repeatedly beaten, and learns the brutal truth about his pre-war flame, Lena Brandt.

Join us next week on the Filmographers Podcast, when Soderbergh rolls the dice on his third trip to his most successful and most crowd-pleasing franchise: “Ocean’s Thirteen.”

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