About The Reader
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.
Movie details
- Release date
- 2008-12-10
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rating
- 7.5/10 (3,396 votes)
- Language
- EN
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Writer
- David Hare
Cast
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