Film · Drama, Romance
The Reader (2008)
Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
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
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- December 10, 2008
Cast
Ralph FiennesMichael Berg
Kate WinsletHanna Schmitz
David KrossYoung Michael Berg
Lena OlinRose Mather
Bruno GanzProfessor Rohl
Jeanette HainBrigitte
Hannah HerzsprungJulia
Karoline HerfurthMarthe
Volker BruchDieter Spenz
Alexandra Maria LaraYoung Ilana Mather
Fabian BuschHanna's Defense Council
Vijessna FerkicSophie
Susanne LotharCarla Berg
Matthias HabichPeter Berg
Burghart KlaußnerJudge
Sylvester GrothProsecuting Council
Jürgen TarrachGerhard Bade
Florian BartholomäiThomas Berg
Moritz GroveHolger
Kirsten BlockFemale Judge
