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The Reader (2008)

123 min ·R
DramaRomance
based on novel or bookgermanywar crimesworld war iiwomen's prisontrialfemale prisonerreading aloudlove affaircynicallaw studentteenage sexualityolder woman younger man relationshipreading to someonesecret lovershameliteracyfranticwest germanycourtroom dramacomplexcautionarydepressingcrueldishearteningembarrassedtragic

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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Stephen Daldry director
David Hare writer
Sydney Pollack producer
Redmond Morris producer
Donna Gigliotti producer

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