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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.
Nov 30, 2008 · The Reader, based on Bernhard Schlink’s controversial German novel, deliberately places a Holocaust perpetrator at the story’s focal point. But since we first meet her in an entirely different...
Based on Bernhard Schlink’s 1995 Holocaust novel of the same name, The Reader balances brilliantly the dark, menacing undertones of war (and the ugly things one must do to survive) with the innocent purity of first love.
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Dec 10, 2008 · The Reader is ponderously self-important and smugly Socratic, brimming with unfinished sentences and pregnant pauses; if a single character would only say what he thinks, the movie would be over in 30 minutes. Read More. By Chris Kaltenbach FULL REVIEW. 50.
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Reader, The (2008) **** (out of 4) In post-war Germany a 15-year-old boy (David Kross) has an affair with an older woman (Kate Winslet) and falls in love but weeks later she disappears without a trace. Years later the man is in law school when he goes to a war-crime trial and sees that the woman has been brought up on charges.
Stephen Daldry. Synopsis. 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...
The Reader (2008) Directed by: Stephen Daldry. Premise: In post-World War II Germany, a young man (David Kross) has a love affair with an older woman (Kate Winslet). Years later, he finds her on trial for war crimes.
