The Reader (2008)
Rating: 7.5/10
Duration: 124 min
Director(s): Stephen Daldry,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Lena Olin as Rose Mather
- Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz
- Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg
- David Kross as Young Michael Berg
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Young Ilana Mather
- Bruno Ganz as Professor Rohl
- Matthias Habich as Peter Berg
- Susanne Lothar as Carla Berg
- Burghart Klaußner as Judge
- Karoline Herfurth as Marthe
- Jeanette Hain as Brigitte
- Volker Bruch as Dieter Spenz
- Fabian Busch as Hanna's Defense Council
- Hannah Herzsprung as Julia
- Vijessna Ferkic as Sophie