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The Reader is a film based on a novel by Bernhard Schlink, starring Kate Winslet as a former Nazi guard who hides a secret from a young lover. The film explores themes of love, guilt, justice and literacy, and received mixed reviews and awards.
The Reader: Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, David Kross, Kate Winslet. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
- (262K)
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Stephen Daldry
- 2009-01-30
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as ...
- 3 min
- 558K
- MarcusWrightHeroe
NEW. Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to ...
- (204)
- Stephen Daldry
- R
- Kate Winslet
Dec 23, 2008 · Kate Winslet and David Kross in "The Reader." The crucial decision in “The Reader” is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it. He is ashamed to reveal his affair with this woman.
Watch The Reader (2008) free starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross and directed by Stephen Daldry. In "The Reader," young Michael Berg's passionate affair with enigmatic Hanna ends abruptly, only for him to confront her haunting past years later as she stands trial for war crimes.
Dec 10, 2008 · 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.
