3 real historical locations · Germany
Steven Soderbergh's noir thriller set in post-war Berlin in 1945, shot in black-and-white in the style of a 1940s Hollywood film. An American journalist becomes entangled in a murder mystery leading back to a wartime atrocity and the woman he once loved.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
The 2006 George Clooney film set in occupied Berlin in the weeks after Germany's surrender — an American journalist uncovers a murder case tied to the Nazi r...
After Germany's defeat, American, British and Soviet intelligence agencies all scrambled to capture German scientists and technology before the other Allies. Operation Paperclip secretly brought over 1,600 Nazi scient...
View location →The Potsdam Conference of July–August 1945 — where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill divide post-war Germany — forms the political backdrop. American journalist ...
The Potsdam Conference (17 July – 2 August 1945) determined Germany's occupation zones, reparations, and borders. It was here Truman hinted to Stalin about the atomic bomb, which Stalin already knew about.
View location →Post-war Berlin's prison network holds suspected war criminals while the four Allied powers compete for German rocket scientists and intelligence assets — th...
Spandau Prison held the seven Nuremberg defendants sentenced to prison rather than death. Operation Paperclip ran in parallel, secretly extracting Nazi scientists for US and Soviet space programmes.
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