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The Reader (2008)

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overview : 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.

Release Date : Dec 10, 2008

Runtime : 2h 4m

Genre : Drama  Romance  

Companies : The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg, FFA, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, ARD, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

Countries : Germany, United States of America

Keywords : based on novel or book, germany, war crimes, women's prison, trial, female prisoner, reading aloud, love affair, law student, teenage sexuality, older woman younger man relationship, reading to someone, secret lover, shame, literacy, west germany, courtroom drama


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