The Reader

Movie

2008

2h 4m

English

Drama, Romance

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The Reader

Movie

2008

2h 4m

English

Drama, Romance

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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.

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Cast

Hanna Schmitz

Michael Berg

Young Michael Berg

Rose Mather

Professor Rohl

Brigitte

Julia

Marthe

Dieter Spenz

Young Ilana Mather

Hanna's Defense Council

Sophie

Carla Berg

Peter Berg

Judge

Prosecuting Council

Gerhard Bade

Thomas Berg

Holger

Female Judge

Co-Defendant

Co-Defendant

Remand Prison Guard #1

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Prison Librarian

Heike Hanold-Lynch

Prison Guard

Directed By: Stephen Daldry

Written By: David Hare (Screenplay)

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Wanheda says...

11 years ago

AMAZING! So well played and written. So many emotions and definitely makes you think.

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Horror future #7 says...

4 years ago

I was afraid i was going to find this movie as boring but no i was way wrong.It was a great film with nice plot and Winslet once again leveled up the movie in which she was the leader actress.7.5/10

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AntorFH05 says...

8 months ago

In the first hour I didn't realize it would go in a direction like that. First half was amazing to start any romantic film and the second part which was meant to be tragedic could have been any difficulties of society. But the writers made a bold choice by making film about a controversial topic. For me a controversial topic can ruin the purpose of a romantic movie. As a result the movie wasn't touching enough as a romance film. The message of the movie was so intense in the later part that the tragedic feeling was missing. The evergreen Kate Winslet performed as she always does. Although she could have been replaced for the older part.

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7 years ago

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badelf

one year ago

I didn't turn this movie off after the beautiful sex scenes only because two others were watching it with me. The mere fact that "Germans" were speaking English totally destroyed the whole "suspend disbelief" for me. This film is an awful rendition by Brits of an award-winning German book. Perhaps, More

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

David Kross is really effective in this tale of a young boy ("Michael") who encounters "Hanna" (Kate Winslet) as he shelters in her doorway from a rainstorm. In fairly short order, this fifteen year old boy becomes her lover; in return she gets him to read to her. He is soon infatuated and devastate More

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