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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.
- $108.9 million
- Nico Muhly
- $32 million
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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Stephen Daldry
- 2009-01-30
Dec 23, 2008 · Advertisement. The film centers on a sexual relationship between Hanna ( Kate Winslet ), a woman in her mid-30s, and Michael (David Kross), a boy of 15. That such things are wrong is beside the point; they happen, and the story is about how it connected with her earlier life and his later one.
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Jan 9, 2009 · Bruno Ganz. Professor Rohl. Watchlist. The Spirit. Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older...
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- Stephen Daldry
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- Kate Winslet
Summaries. 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. THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age.
Dec 10, 2008 · Mark Jenkins. Enlarge this image. Hanna Schmitz (right, Kate Winslet) mysteriously disappears after her brief affair with young Michael Berg (David Kross). Melinda Sue Gordon/The Weinstein Company....
Nov 30, 2008 · The film opens Dec. 10, expands Christmas Day and goes national Jan. 9. The Reader , based on Bernhard Schlink’s controversial German novel, deliberately places a Holocaust perpetrator at the...
