Good

Anything that Makes People Happy Can’t be Bad Can It?

World War II Germany

Deeply embroiled in the heart of World War II Germany, Good surrounds the actions of one man, John Halder (Viggo Mortensen). He is a mid-level university professor with a complicated wife and an ever-increasing pessimism towards the world around him. But when a blonde-haired beauty from his class begins to make sexual advances towards him, he is reawakened inside, just in time for a visit from the Office of the Chancellory regarding an obscure work of fiction he published years earlier.

Time Runs Out

The novel, with a pro-euthanasia bent, has been picked up by the looming Nazi party, with obviously nefarious intent that only the foresight of history can assume. Halder is quickly brought in as a ‘consultant’ to the SS, where his honorary title slowly expands while balancing on the tenacity of the singular theme of his early book: euthanasia. As the steps are incremental, there is little for Halder to realize he is giving away, until he is estranged from his family and living with the picture of the Third Reich woman, donning SS suits to aid in Kristallnacht, and comforting his Jewish friend Maurice as time runs out.

Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Jason Issacs

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