The young Napoleon was a close student of Frederick's methods and, after defeating Prussian armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806, took his marshals to visit Frederick's tomb in Potsdam.
To paraphrase the words of Winston Churchill, who is seen in newsreel footage of the Potsdam Peace Conference in "The Good German, " Steven Soderbergh's new film is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery inside a perversity.