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The Reader

Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.

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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.

  • Release date
  • December 10, 2008
  • Runtime
  • 124 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Romance
  • Director
  • Stephen Daldry

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Ralph Fiennes photo Ralph Fiennes Michael Berg Kate Winslet photo Kate Winslet Hanna Schmitz David Kross photo David Kross Young Michael Berg Lena Olin photo Lena Olin Rose Mather Bruno Ganz photo Bruno Ganz Professor Rohl Jeanette Hain photo Jeanette Hain Brigitte Hannah Herzsprung photo Hannah Herzsprung Julia Karoline Herfurth photo Karoline Herfurth Marthe

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