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Dec 23, 2008 · 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’: Film Review. The lively, nonlinear structure imposed by screenwriter David Hare and tight, focused direction from Stephen Daldry make this an engaging period drama.
Adapted from Bernhard Schlink's best-selling German novel, "The Reader," Daldry's visual translation is a powerful, emotionally absorbing film that is one of the year's best. It's superbly crafted. With World War II over, Germany, in 1958, is still recovering.
Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her ...
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- Stephen Daldry
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- Kate Winslet
Poo-Review Ratings. 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.
- Caitlin Maggs
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- Stephen Daldry
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2011. Kelly Vance East...
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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.
