Good
Director: Vicente Amorim
Writers: John Wrathall (screenplay),
C. P. Taylor (stage play)
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Strong, Gemma Jones,
Ruth Gemmell
Producers: Sarah Boote,
Billy Dietrich, Kevin Loader,
Dan Lupovitz, Miriam Segal
Executive Producers:
Douglas Cummins, Karsten Brünig, Danielle Dajani, Simon Fawcett,
Rexal Ford, Peter Hampden,
Stephen Hayes, Jason Isaacs,
Norman Merry, Brian O'Shea,
Julia Jay Pierrepont III
Country: UK / Germany
Distribution / International Sales:
eOne
Year: 2008
Using one man's moral decline to express the fate of an entire nation, GOOD is a devastating drama set in Germany in the 1930's based on the acclaimed play by CP Taylor.
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Starring Oscar-nominee Viggo Mortensen in a dazzling change-of-pace performance, the story centres around John Halder, an enlightened intellectual who gets swept up by the momentum of Hitler's rise to power.
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Though basically a good human being, Halder has a number of personal and professional problems that are suddenly solved when he agrees to do a small service for a powerful political figure. Though no single action of Halder's is particularly harmful in and of itself, the accumulated effect of rendering a number of such services in exchange for a number of increasingly compromising rewards, takes its toll.
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One day, this seemingly "good" man, wakes up to discover that, like countless other German citizens, he has become a Nazi.
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Official Selection:
Toronto International Film Festival 2008