The Reader (2008)
"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.
Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth
Year: 2008
Budget: $32,000,000
Revenue: $108,902,486
Production: The Weinstein Company
Language: English
Country: Germany
