The Reader

Release Date: 2008-12-10

Runtime: 124

Languages: English | Deutsch | ελληνικά | Latin

Rating: 7.4

Votes: 3193

Genres: Drama | Romance

Director: Stephen Daldry

Description: 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 i...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.Read More

Production Companies:

The Weinstein Company

Mirage Enterprises