After 2005's digital day-and-date experiment BUBBLE, Soderbergh swung hard in the other direction with a Golden Age Hollywood pastiche: his (loose) adaptation of Joseph Kanon's postwar Berlin mystery THE GOOD GERMAN. Joining us is film writer and literal historian Peter Raleigh! We talk adaptation, aesthetic imitation, Denazification, CASABLANCA, and much more. Check it out!

Further Reading:

The Good German by Joseph Kanon

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora by Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler

Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong

"Fighting Men" by Anthony Lane

"Style Wars: Steven Soderbergh's 'The Good German'" by Michael Koresky

Further Viewing:

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Hitchcock, 1940)

CASABLANCA (Curtiz, 1942)

TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942)

A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Wilder, 1948)

THE THIRD MAN (Reed, 1949)

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (Kramer, 1961)

EUROPA (Von Trier, 1991)

BARB WIRE (Hogan, 1996)

PHOENIX (Petzold, 2014)

TRANSIT (Petzold, 2018)

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