The Reader

7.5|2008|2h 4m| EN

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.

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Stephen Daldry

Votes: 3143

Production Companies:

The Weinstein Company

Mirage Enterprises

Studio Babelsberg