Dec 10, 2008
124 min
Full-HD

The Reader (2008)

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.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

Germany United States of America

Companies

The Weinstein Company Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen Mirage Enterprises Studio Babelsberg ARD Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

Kate Winslet

Hanna Schmitz

Ralph Fiennes

Michael Berg

David Kross

Young Michael Berg

Lena Olin

Rose Mather

Bruno Ganz

Professor Rohl

Jeanette Hain

Brigitte

Hannah Herzsprung

Julia

Karoline Herfurth

Marthe

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