The Reader

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2008 PG-13 2h 4m
7.5 /10
3.3K
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The Reader
The Reader
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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.

User Reviews
A
30 Sep 2025

The Reader blends a controversial romance with post-war German guilt, presenting a layered, emotional story carried by powerful performances and thoug...

B
23 May 2023

I didn't turn this movie off after the beautiful sex scenes only because two others were watching it with me. The mere fact that "Germans" were speaki...

Geronimo1967
6 Jun 2022

David Kross is really effective in this tale of a young boy ("Michael") who encounters "Hanna" (Kate Winslet) as he shelters in her doorway from a rai...

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