The Reader
- Released on
- Runtime
- 124 mins
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.
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
- Kate Winslet
- Ralph Fiennes
- David Kross
- Lena Olin
- Bruno Ganz
- Jeanette Hain
- Hannah Herzsprung
- Karoline Herfurth
- Volker Bruch
- Alexandra Maria Lara
- Fabian Busch
- Vijessna Ferkic
- Susanne Lothar
- Matthias Habich
- Burghart Klaußner
- Sylvester Groth
- Jürgen Tarrach
- Florian Bartholomäi
- Moritz Grove
- Kirsten Block
- Margarita Broich
- Marie Gruber
- Martin Brambach
- Carmen-Maja Antoni
- Heike Hanold-Lynch
- Linda Bassett
- Ludwig Blochberger
- Benjamin Trinks
Director
- Stephen Daldry
Producers
- Donna Gigliotti
- Anthony Minghella
- Sydney Pollack
- Redmond Morris
Screenwriter
- David Hare
