The Reader (2008)
Ratings:
7.5 (TMDb)
Released:
2008-12-10
Runtime:
2h 4m
Genres:
Drama, Romance
Countries:
Germany, United States of America
Director:
Stephen Daldry
Actors:
Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth
Synopsis
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.