The Reader (2008)
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Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
Overview
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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Status Released
Original Language English
Budget $32,000,000.00
Revenue $108,902,486.00
Keywords
- germany
- based on novel or book
- war crimes
- women's prison
- trial
- female prisoner
- reading aloud
- love affair
- cynical
- law student
- teenage sexuality
- older woman younger man relationship
- reading to someone
- secret lover
- shame
- literacy
- frantic
- west germany
- courtroom drama
- complex
- cautionary
- depressing
- cruel
- disheartening
- embarrassed
- tragic
Content Score
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