The Reader
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.
- Year: 2008
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
- Keyword: based on novel or book, germany, war crimes, world war ii, 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
- Director: Stephen Daldry
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
