The Reader 2008

7.6 /10
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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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... Kate Winslet

... Ralph Fiennes

... David Kross

... Lena Olin

... Bruno Ganz

... Jeanette Hain

... Hannah Herzsprung

... Karoline Herfurth

... Volker Bruch

... Alexandra Maria Lara

Director:

Stephen Daldry,

Release Date:

Jan 02, 2008

Run Time:

124 Min

MMPA Rating:

17

Plot Keywords:

Germany Based On Novel Or Book War Crimes Trial Female Prisoner Law Student Teenage Sexuality Older Woman Younger Man Relationship Love Affair Has Trailer Women S Prison Reading Aloud Reading To Someone Secret Lover Shame Literacy Courtroom Drama Holocaust Reading Sex In Bed Reference To Goethe War Atrocity Reference To War And Peace The Novel Adolescent Undressing Swimsuit Learning To Write Female Nudity Sex Scene Male Nudity Younger Version Of Character Sexual Relationship Reference To Homer S Odyssey Teaching Oneself To Read Running Down Stairs Bicycle Trip Absolution Jew Playing Footsie Polishing Shoes Pen And Paper Oven Studying Microphone Writing A Poem Reference To The Lady And The Little Dog The Novel Heidelberg Law School Reference To Lady Chatterley S Lover The Novel Year 1958 West Berlin West Germany Year 1988 Year 1980 Year 1966 World War Two Integrity Stamp Collection Philately Bathing Post World War Two Crime Against Humanity Woman Putting On A Stocking Looking At Oneself In A Mirror European History Male Police Officer Teaching Oneself To Write Female Lawyer Tea Tin Looking Through A Window Dining Hall Flowers Legality Burning To Death Apology Washing Hands Friend Courthouse Embarrassment Seminar Gravestone Mail Mailbox Police Van Poem Packing Prison Library Flashback Within A Flashback Reference To Anton Chekhov Heidelberg Germany Listening To Music Gym Class Ironing Asking For Forgiveness Reference To Moby Dick The Novel Reference To Huckleberry Finn Reading A Comic Book Menu Walking In The Rain Shared Bath Neustadt Germany Eating Flash Forward 16 Year Old Reference To Homer Year 1995 Slip The Undergarment 15 Year Old Withholding Evidence Lie Learning To Read Law Professor False Confession False Accusation Classmate Stamp Collector Stamp Album Postage Stamp Haunted By The Past Two Word Title Egg Based On Novel Woman In Prison Attorney Woman Teenager Relationship Woman Teenage Boy Relationship Illiterate Woman Reading A Book Teenage Boy Reads A Comic Book Reading A Novel Out Loud Female Law Student Prison Visit Woman Has Sex With A Teenage Boy Woman Has Sex With A Teenager Scarlet Fever Teenage Boy Vomits Boy Vomits Woman Bathes A Teenage Boy Teenage Boy In A Bathtub Taking A Bath Woman Embraces A Teenage Boy Woman Slaps A Boy Woman Slaps A Teenage Boy Teenage Boy In Love Underage Boy In Love With Adult Woman Convicted Of Murder Courtroom Trial Courtroom Scene Female Murderer Riding A Bicycle 15 Year Old Boy Sick Boy Sick Teenage Boy Apologizing Female Attorney Shoveling Coal Bucket Of Coal Riding A Train Audio Cassette Headstone War Crimes Trial Falsely Accused Of A Crime War Crime Confession False Confession To Murder Adult Teenager Relationship Aiding And Abetting Death March Burning Church Burning Building Locked In A Burning Building Trapped In A Burning Building Burned To Death Suicide By Hanging Reading Of A Last Will And Testament Learning A Language Learning A New Language Learning Latin Learning Greek Speaking Latin Speaking Greek Adult Has Sex With A Teenage Boy Adult In Love With A Minor Keeping A Relationship Secret 16 Year Old Boy 36 Year Old Woman 36 Year Old Female Rear Nudity Female Full Frontal Nudity Confession Of A Crime Hanged To Death Man And Woman In A Bed Woman In A Bathtub Reading Aloud Reading To Someone Shame West Germany War Crime Sex With A Minor Trial Secret Nazi Concentration Camp Lust Hamburg Germany Women S Prison Loss Of Virginity Female Prisoner Ss Blonde Sexually Aggressive Woman Teenage Girl First Love Intimacy 1990s 1970s Underwear Auschwitz Sexual Attraction Skinny Dipping Law School Forbidden Love War Criminal Teenager Germany Law Student Law Student Justice Prison Courtroom Vomiting Divorce Israel Friendship Barbed Wire Job Promotion Fear Suicide 1980s 1960s Writing Train Teenage Boy Tape Recording Tape Recorder Lawyer Judge Coming Of Age Bicycle Illiteracy Obsessive Love Court Sexual Awakening Literacy Age Difference Family Dinner Classroom Class Letter Cigarette Smoking Nonlinear Timeline Police Officer Cigarette Fictional Biography Cassette Tape Taxi Suitcase Conscience Morality Locked Door Vanity Pride Surprise Cemetery Graveyard Survivor Crematorium Restaurant Cafe Bar Photograph Wine Mirror Gun Police Protest Demonstration Last Will And Testament Library New York City Church Virginity Rain Bed Voice Over Narration Food Kiss Flashback Berlin Germany Birthday Fire Dying Teacher Tears Crying Illness Mother Daughter Relationship Alienation University Telephone Call Teacher Student Relationship Swimming School Murder Mother Son Relationship Money Jail High School Guilt Father Son Relationship Father Daughter Relationship Family Relationships Death Confession Brother Sister Relationship Book Bathtub 1940s Foreign Language Adaptation Based On Book Fresh Man Undresses 2k Blu Ray False Accusation Of Murder Brassiere Nudity Male Undressing Slapped In The Face Jail Visit Reading Aloud From A Book Mature Woman Teenage Boy Sex

Cast & Crew of

The Reader

Directors & Credit Writers

... Director

Cast

... Kate Winslet

... Ralph Fiennes

... David Kross

... Lena Olin

... Bruno Ganz

... Jeanette Hain

... Hannah Herzsprung

... Karoline Herfurth

... Volker Bruch

... Alexandra Maria Lara

... Fabian Busch

... Vijessna Ferkic

... Susanne Lothar

... Matthias Habich

... Burghart Klauner

... Sylvester Groth

... Jrgen Tarrach

... Florian Bartholomi

... Moritz Grove

... Kirsten Block

... Margarita Broich

... Marie Gruber

... Martin Brambach

... CarmenMaja Antoni

... Heike HanoldLynch

... Linda Bassett

... Ludwig Blochberger

... Benjamin Trinks

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The Reader

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