The Reader
First aired on Dec 10, 2008
Runtime: 124 mins
70%
Genres: Drama, Romance
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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Featured Crew
Stephen Daldry | Director
Chris Menges | Director of Photography
David Hare | Screenplay
Anthony Minghella | Producer
Donna Gigliotti | Producer
Redmond Morris | Producer