The Reader

The Reader

124 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 2, 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. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

The Reader

124 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 2, 2008

The Reader
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Studio Babelsberg, The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mirage Enterprises, ARD, FFA, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Deutscher Filmförderfonds
Original title The Reader
Directors Katri Billard, Susanna Lenton, Stephen Daldry
Writers Bernhard Schlink, David Hare

Cast

Kate Winslet

as Hanna Schmitz

Ralph Fiennes

as Michael Berg

David Kross

as Young Michael Berg

Lena Olin

as Rose Mather

Bruno Ganz

as Professor Rohl

Jeanette Hain

as Brigitte

Karoline Herfurth

as Marthe

Volker Bruch

as Dieter Spenz

Alexandra Maria Lara

as Young Ilana Mather

Fabian Busch

as Hanna's Defense Council

Vijessna Ferkic

as Sophie

Susanne Lothar

as Carla Berg

Matthias Habich

as Peter Berg

Sylvester Groth

as Prosecuting Council

Jürgen Tarrach

as Gerhard Bade

Florian Bartholomäi

as Thomas Berg

Moritz Grove

as Holger

Kirsten Block

as Female Judge

Margarita Broich

as Co-Defendant

Marie Gruber

as Co-Defendant

Martin Brambach

as Remand Prison Guard #1

Carmen-Maja Antoni

as Prison Librarian

Heike Hanold-Lynch

as Prison Guard

Linda Bassett

as Ms. Brenner

Ludwig Blochberger

as Student

Benjamin Trinks

as Holger's friend