Description The Reader English

The movie The Reader (Original title The Reader) has in the main roles on Kate Winslet (Hanna Schmitz), Ralph Fiennes (Michael Berg), David Kross (Young Michael Berg), Bruno Ganz (Professor Rohl) The release date of the movie is 10.12.2008. This movie it is produced by The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg . Filmed in the following locations: Kirnitzschtal, Sächsische Schweiz, Saxony, Germany . Production countries: Germany, United States of America Movie Genre: Movies Drama, Movies 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.

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

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