R2h 4m2008

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.

Director: Stephen Daldry
Writers: David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Language: English
Country: Germany, United States of America
Release date: 10 December 2008
Budget: $32,000,000
Box office: $108,902,486