For a while it looked like Roman Polanski's house arrest in Switzerland would severely delay the release of his next film, The Ghost Writer, in which Pierce Brosnan plays a British Prime Minister with some nasty secrets and Ewan McGregor the ghostwriter hired to handle his memoirs, but finding himself in a murder investigation instead. And while Polanski's legal situation is still up in the air, The Ghost Writer is coming soon-- like, February 19 soon.

And even though there's somehow not a U.S. trailer yet, < a href=http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/08/the-ghost-writer-international-trailer-footage-from-polanskis-return-dubbed-auf-deutsch/>Slashfilm unearthed one dubbed in German. I attemped to use my high-school German to translate the thing, but as soon as I was finished a very helpful commenter over there posted a perfect translation. Below is the YouTube trailer, and below that, the translation from "alex88." Congratulations, Alex, your German is far better than mine.

And yet, even with the English dialogue, this movie looks like nothing more than standard boilerplate thriller. I mean, the tagline once translated is "Nothing is more dangerous than the truth." It's possible that a snazzier English-language trailer will be cut, and that with the actors' actual voices this whole enterprise will look a little less like your typical February release. But I wouldn't keep my hopes up.



0:05 - 0:15
[Evan McGregor] Who is this McCarem ? Should i know him?
[Blue Suit Guy]He was Langs Assistant during his time in office. The Book killed him.

0:15 - 0:16
[Text] A movie by Roman Polanski

0:21 - 0:24
[Pierce Brosnan] Hello , who are you?
[Evan McGregor] Your Ghostwriter

0:25 - 0:26
[Text] The Ghost Writer

0:29 - 0:31
[Pierce Brosnan] Should we start?
[Evan McGregor]Yes, of course

0:33
[Evan McGregor] Hello?

0:39
[Evan McGregor] Yes?

0:40 - 0:43
[Olivia Williams] Mike's death was a shock, but that's not everything.

0:44 - 0:48
[Kim Cattrall] I hope you don't intend to take the manoscript.You know how serious this situation is or do you?

0:51 - 0:56
[Evan McGregor] I was at the beach and I met this man. Who said it was impossible that the body could be washed up.

0:57 - 0:58
[Eli Wallach] Impossible.

0:59 - 1:01
[Olivia Williams] You think he was killed?
[Evan McGregor] You don't ...?

1:02
[Tom Wilkinson] I think you are wrong.
1:06
[Text]SOME SECRETS ...

1:08 - 1:10
[Angry man at Protest] You work for a murderer!

1:12 -
[Newscaster] The Former British prime minister Adam Lang is again in the news ...

1:15 - 1: 17
[Pierce Brosnan] You son of a bitch! (or someting like that)

1:22 YOU CAN'T HIDE

1:21 - 1:24
[Man at phone] Who are you?
[Evan McGregor] The new ghost writer.
[Man at phone] No names, always no names.

1:38 - 1:45
[older man in Suit in bar] Just tell me one decision from Lang's time as prime minister that wasn't in the interest of the United States.

THE GHOST WRITER
NOTHING IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE TRUTH

1:48 - 1:50
[Pierce Brosnan] Is there something you want to tell me?