David Kross is really effective in this tale of a young boy ("Michael") who encounters ...
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![The Reader](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/r0WURbmnhgKeBpHcpDULBgRedQM.jpg)
The Reader
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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The Reader
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Status
Released
Release Date
Dec 10, 2008
Runtime
2h 4m
Genres
Drama, Romance
User Score
75%
Original Title
The Reader
Production Companies
The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg, ARD, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Director
Stephen Daldry
Budget
$32,000,000
Revenue
$108,902,486
Description
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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