The Reader (2008)
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.
Genre | Drama, Romance |
Language | English, Deutsch |
Production | Deutscher Filmförderfonds, FFA, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Keywords | affair, based on novel or book, female prisoner, germany, law student |
Budget | $32,000,000 |