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The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, written by David Hare on the basis of the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink, and starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth.
Jan 30, 2009 · 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.
- (260K)
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Stephen Daldry
- 2009-01-30
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.
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May 20, 2024 · The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. It stars Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, and Karoline Herfurth.
On a rainy day in late 1950s Neustadt in West Germany, shivering 15-year-old tram passenger Michael Berg chances upon Hanna Schmitz, a stern tram conductor and a woman six years more than twice his age.
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