The Reader (movie)
- User score: 7.5
- Production country: Germany, United States of America
- Producer: Stephen Daldry
- Production companies: The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg, ARD, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Budget: $32,000,000
- Revenue: $108,902,486
- Release date: 12/10/2008
- Run time: 124 min.
Movie 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 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.
