The Reader
Where: |
🇩🇪 Germany |
When: |
The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s |
Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know. — 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.
Released in 2008 — 124 minutes
Genres: |
Drama Romance |
Languages: |
English German Latin Greek |