The Reader (2008)
December 10, 2008
Drama, Romance
2h 4m


Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Hanna Schmitz Kate Winslet
- Michael Berg Ralph Fiennes
- Young Michael Berg David Kross
- Rose Mather Lena Olin
- Professor Rohl Bruno Ganz
- Brigitte Jeanette Hain
- Julia Hannah Herzsprung
- Marthe Karoline Herfurth
Recommendations
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