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The Reader

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

2008 · R · 2h 4m

Directed by Stephen Daldry

7.5

TMDB audience score
3,518 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Ralph Fiennes
    Michael Berg

  • Kate Winslet
    Hanna Schmitz

  • David Kross
    Young Michael Berg

  • Lena Olin
    Rose Mather

  • Bruno Ganz
    Professor Rohl

  • Jeanette Hain
    Brigitte

  • Hannah Herzsprung
    Julia

  • Karoline Herfurth
    Marthe

  • Volker Bruch
    Dieter Spenz

  • Alexandra Maria Lara
    Young Ilana Mather

  • Fabian Busch
    Hanna's Defense Council

  • Vijessna Ferkic
    Sophie

  • Susanne Lothar
    Carla Berg

  • Matthias Habich
    Peter Berg

  • Burghart Klaußner
    Judge

  • Sylvester Groth
    Prosecuting Council

  • Jürgen Tarrach
    Gerhard Bade

  • Florian Bartholomäi
    Thomas Berg