The Reader

2008Rated7.52h 4mDrama, 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.

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross

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Cast

  • Ralph FiennesMichael Berg
  • Kate WinsletHanna Schmitz
  • David KrossYoung Michael Berg
  • Lena OlinRose Mather
  • Bruno GanzProfessor Rohl
  • Jeanette HainBrigitte
  • Hannah HerzsprungJulia
  • Karoline HerfurthMarthe
  • Volker BruchDieter Spenz
  • Alexandra Maria LaraYoung Ilana Mather

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