The Reader

Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.

The Reader (2008)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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Release date

2008-12-10

Country

Germany, United States

Production

The Weinstein Company, Blumhouse Productions, Studio Babelsberg, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Mirage Enterprises, FFA, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ARD, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$32 000 000

Revenue

$108 902 486

Website

http://www.thereader-movie.com/

Director

Stephen Daldry

Actors

Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Volker Bruch, Alexandra Maria Lara
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Scenario

Producer

Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Redmond Morris, Donna Gigliotti, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein

Operator

Roger Deakins

Composer

Nico Muhly

Artist

Audition

Jina Jay, Simone Bär

Editing

Claire Simpson
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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. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

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