The Reader

2008 · 124 min · ★ 7.5 / 10 · 3484 votes

Drama · Romance

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.

Cast

Ralph Fiennes · Kate Winslet · David Kross · Lena Olin · Bruno Ganz · Jeanette Hain · Hannah Herzsprung · Karoline Herfurth · Volker Bruch · Alexandra Maria Lara

Director

Stephen Daldry