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.
| Title | The Reader |
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| Release Date | 2008-12-10 |
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| Genres | Drama Romance |
| Production Companies | The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Studio Babelsberg, FFA, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ARD |
| Production Countries | Germany, United States of America |
