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The Reader. (2008 film) 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 . The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a ...
- $108.9 million
- Nico Muhly
- $32 million
Dec 19, 2008 · Who is he? He's the 18-year-old German actor in Stephen Daldry's new film, The Reader. Kros was cast when he was 15, but filming had to be put on hold for a couple of years. Why the delay? For a ...
- Cath Clarke
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 10, 2008 · Hanna Schmitz (right, Kate Winslet) mysteriously disappears after her brief affair with young Michael Berg (David Kross). Melinda Sue Gordon/The Weinstein Company. The Reader. Director: Stephen ...
Dec 10, 2008 · A 15-year-old lad named Michael Berg (David Kross, giving a splendidly modulated performance of teen angst, sexuality and intellectual aspiration) falls ill in the entrance of an apartment building in 1950s Germany. He is rescued by an attractive working-class woman named Hanna (Kate Winslet in a performance that heartbreakingly combines ...
Dec 5, 2008 · Translating Love and the Unspeakable. Share full article. Kate Winslet and David Kross in “The Reader,” directed by Stephen Daldry and adapted from Bernard Schlink’s novel. Brigitte Lacombe ...
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. By making this decision, he shifts the film's focus from the subject of German guilt about the Holocaust and turns it on the human race in general. The film intends his ...
