The Reader

2008 · Directed by Stephen Daldry

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.

drama romance

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, Lena Olin, Alexandra Maria Lara, Karoline Herfurth, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, Hannah Herzsprung, Volker Bruch, Vijessna Ferkic

Rating: 7.437/10 from 2,545 votes