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The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, scripted by David Hare, adapting the 1995 German novel Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink, and starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, and Karoline Herfurth. The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a Berlin lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a brief summer love affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She abruptly leaves, only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past — a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial.
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Writer
- David Hare
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- Release date
- 2008 · Released
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Country of origin
- Germany, United States
- Languages
- English, Greek
- Genres
- Drama · Romance · Coming-of-age · Prison
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Der Vorleser
- Italiano
- The Reader - A voce alta
- 日本語
- 愛を読むひと
- 한국어
- 더 리더: 책 읽어주는 남자
- Polski
- Lektor
- Português
- O Leitor
- Themes
- illiteracy ↗ The Holocaust ↗ World War II ↗
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