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A middle-aged lawyer reflects on the brief affair he had as a teen with an older woman -- who ended up on trial for Nazi war crimes eight years later. Watch trailers & learn more.
Academy Award and BAFTA winner Kate Winslet delivers a dynamic performance in this tale of eroticism, secrecy and guilt set in turbulent post-Nazi Germany. Bringing to life the celebrated international novel, Winslet is riveting as Hanna Schmitz – a lonely, working-class woman who experiences a brief but intense affair with a teenage boy. Years later they meet again: Hanna now a defendant in ...
Nov 30, 2008 · To Winslet and Kross belong the gutsy, intense performances of the film. Lena Olin as a unyielding camp survivor and Bruno Ganz as a sagacious law professor put in memorable appearances. Fiennes ...
A middle-aged lawyer reflects on the brief affair he had as a teen with an older woman -- who ended up on trial for Nazi war crimes eight years later. Watch trailers & learn more.
Released December 10th, 2008, 'The Reader' stars Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin The R movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 4 min, and received a user score of 75 (out of 100) on ...
The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along with the young actor David Kross. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom had ...
The Reader (German: Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997. The story is a parable , dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations have had comprehending the Holocaust ; Ruth Franklin writes that it was aimed specifically at the generation Bertolt Brecht called the Nachgeborenen ...
