Anything that makes people happy can't be bad, can it?
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.
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.
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.
One day, this seemingly "good" man, wakes up to discover that, like countless other German citizens, he has become a Nazi.
Starring:
Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh, Mark Strong, Gemma Jones
Director:
Vicente Amorim
Producers:
Miriam Segal
Screenplay:
John Wrathall
Executive Producers:
Simon Fawcett, Peter Hampden, Brian O'Shea
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Credits summary:
Aramid Entertainment presents a Good Films Production, in co-production with Miromar Entertainment and Laurin Entertainment in association with Lipsync Productions LLP, Mixer Productions Brazil, 120db Films and ±«Óãtv Films
Certificate:
15
Running time:
95 mins
Released:
17 May 2009
Out on DVD:
31 August 2009
Broadcast on:
22 January 2017