The Good German (2006)

George Clooney: Jake Geismer

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• Jake Geismer : She could get people to do things, and they didn't know how she did it.

• Patrick Tully : You see any action?

  Jake Geismer : I was in London when Franz Bettmann aimed his Roman candles about a hundred feet away from me. Broke all my martini glasses.

• Jake Geismer : Well, there's a piece that would sell: ''Fallen Women of the Third Reich.''

  Patrick Tully : That's pretty raw, sir.

  Jake Geismer : Millions of people didn't disappear because the elves came out at night. Your Fraulein knew exactly what Hitler was doing. They all knew. Did she lift a finger?

  Patrick Tully : You don't know a thing about her.

  Jake Geismer : And you do?

  Patrick Tully : Just because you're a German doesn't make you a Nazi.

• Jake Geismer : This whole goddamn country, she winds up fucking my fucking driver.

• Jake Geismer : I just had to find her again. I knew the bartender would help. Tell a bartender you're looking for a friend and suddenly you have two friends: him - and the girl he steers you to.

• Jake Geismer : I just didn't expect I'd find her like this. I didn't expect I'd find her.

  Danny : When you say to yourself, ''That's the worst thing I've ever heard,'' stick around. That's Berlin. Now it is. There's always something worse.

• Colonel Muller : Were you with Corporal Tully last night?

  Jake Geismer : I was in a club up till dawn drinking with the bartender if your Girl Friday had bothered to check.

• Jake Geismer : You live here with someone?

  Hannelore : Big man. You want two girls?

• Hannelore : The princess, who knows where she is? Lena was raped by the Russians. You'll get yourself a good dose.

  Jake Geismer : I apologize if I hurt your feelings.

  Hannelore : She's not so special. They raped everyone: cripples, children.

• Hannelore : God in heaven, I never thought I'd eat real ham again. Aren't you gonna have any?

  Jake Geismer : None for me.

  Hannelore : No? Is that a Jewish name, Jacob?

  Jake Geismer : The way you're eating that ham could turn anyone kosher.

• Colonel Muller : Champagne from the cellar of Admiral Donitz. Care for some?

  Jake Geismer : I wouldn't want it to go to waste.

  Colonel Muller : Size of the bubbles. Smaller the better, that's the key to champagne. This time last year I was in Anzio, up to my balls in mud.

  Jake Geismer : Six months ago I was freezing my ass off in the Ardennes. The good old days. When you could tell who the bad guy was by who was shooting at you.

• Lena Brandt : You want it straight or something special?

  Jake Geismer : What's special?

  Lena Brandt : Whatever you want.

• Lena Brandt : I'm a Nazi myself, did you know that? It's true.

  Jake Geismer : You're not a Nazi.

  Lena Brandt : No, not a Nazi. None of us. Just something to join, like a sport club. How could you fuck someone for all those years and not know them?

  Jake Geismer : Stop it.

  Lena Brandt : Did you ever fuck a Nazi?

  Jake Geismer : Cut it out.

  Lena Brandt : How about a Jew?

  Jake Geismer : Why won't you let me help you?

  Lena Brandt : A Nazi and a Jew both, better yet.

  Jake Geismer : You did nothing wrong!

  Lena Brandt : I survived.