The Reader

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

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Drama
Romance

Медіа

Overview

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.

Keywords

love affair
based on novel or book
complex
tragic
depressing
world war ii
frantic
cynical
war crimes
disheartening
cautionary
germany
courtroom drama
women's prison
trial
teenage sexuality
older woman younger man relationship
shame
female prisoner
reading aloud
law student
reading to someone
secret lover
literacy
west germany
cruel
embarrassed

Details

Status: Released
Release date: December 10, 2008
Original language: English
Spoken languages: english, german, greek, latin
Countries: Germany, United States of America
Production: The Weinstein Company,Studio Babelsberg,Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen,FFA,Deutscher Filmförderfonds,ARD,Mirage Enterprises,Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM),The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
Budget: $32,000,000
Revenue: $108,902,486
IMDb: tt0976051