The Reader (2008)
15
02/01/2009 (GB)
Drama, Romance
2h 4m
- 75% (3223 votes)
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Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
Overview
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
- Stephen DaldryDirector
- David HareScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$32,000,000
Revenue
$108,902,486
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- germany
- war crimes
- women's prison
- trial
- female prisoner
- reading aloud
- love affair
- cynical
- law student
- teenage sexuality
- older woman younger man relationship
- reading to someone
- secret lover
- shame
- literacy
- frantic
- west germany
- courtroom drama
- complex
- cautionary
- depressing
- cruel
- disheartening
- embarrassed
- tragic
Top Billed Cast
Ralph Fiennes
Michael Berg
Kate Winslet
Hanna Schmitz
David Kross
Young Michael Berg
Lena Olin
Rose Mather
Bruno Ganz
Professor Rohl
Jeanette Hain
Brigitte
Hannah Herzsprung
Julia
Karoline Herfurth
Marthe
Volker Bruch
Dieter Spenz
Alexandra Maria Lara
Young Ilana Mather
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