The Reader

Germany and United States of America, 2008

Film

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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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Credits

producer

Anthony Minghella

Donna Gigliotti

Redmond Morris

Sydney Pollack

production company

ARD

Duration

02:04:00

Production dates
2008 2008

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-8055

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

Romance

TMDB-Movie

8055

Wikidata

Q159063

Collected

87 times

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