Gallery: The Good German

George Clooney plays a US war correspondent who finds himself enmeshed in the deadly chicanery of early Cold War politics when despatched to Berlin to cover the 1945 Potsdam Peace Conference. Director Steven Soderbergh recreates the noirish atmosphere of Casablanca and The Third Man to deliver an engrossing thriller where deception and denial are the common currency. Cate Blanchett adds to the intrigue.