R | 2 h 4 min | Drama | Romance

IMDB 7.6 / 10 (223295 votes)

The Reader (2008)

The Reader | Germany| United States of America

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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Description

Director

Stephen Daldry

Writers

David Hare

Stars

Kate Winslet
Hanna Schmitz

Ralph Fiennes
Michael Berg

David Kross
Young Michael Berg

Lena Olin
Rose Mather

Bruno Ganz
Professor Rohl

Jeanette Hain
Brigitte

Hannah Herzsprung
Julia

Karoline Herfurth
Marthe

Volker Bruch
Dieter Spenz

Alexandra Maria Lara
Young Ilana Mather

Others...

Budget

32,000,000.00

Revenue

113,019,290.00

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Keywords

based on novel, germany, trial, teenager, war crimes, older woman younger man relationship, teenage sexuality, female prisoner, affair, law student

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Production

Studio Babelsberg, The Weinstein Company, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Mirage Enterprises, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), FFA

Actor

Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Volker Bruch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Fabian Busch, Vijessna Ferkic, Susanne Lothar, Matthias Habich, Burghart Klaußner, Sylvester Groth, Jürgen Tarrach, Florian Bartholomäi, Moritz Grove, Kirsten Block, Margarita Broich, Marie Gruber, Martin Brambach, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Heike Hanold-Lynch, Linda Bassett, Ludwig Blochberger, Benjamin Trinks

Creators

Roger Deakins (Director of Photography), Stephen Daldry (Director), Jina Jay (Casting), Bob Weinstein (Executive Producer), Harvey Weinstein (Executive Producer), Sydney Pollack (Producer), Anthony Minghella (Producer), Simone Bär (Casting), Ann Roth (Costume Design), Christian M. Goldbeck (Supervising Art Director), Brigitte Broch (Production Design), David Hare (Screenplay), Chris Menges (Director of Photography), Redmond Morris (Producer), Claire Simpson (Editor), Yesim Zolan (Art Direction), Donna Gigliotti (Producer), Erwin Prib (Art Direction), Bernhard Schlink (Book), Eva Stiebler (Set Decoration), Linda Melazzo (Makeup Artist), Anja Fromm (Art Direction), Nico Muhly (Original Music Composer), Barbara Jean Kearney (Digital Intermediate), Stefan Hauck (Art Direction), Karin Betzler (Set Decoration), Donna Maloney (Costume Design), Susanna Lenton (Script Supervisor), Linda Gamble (Unit Publicist), Annette Kudrak (Music Editor), Katri Billard (Script Supervisor)

Alternative titles

生死朗读 (CN)
Predcítac (CZ)
The Reader (El lector) (ES)
Σφραγισμένα Χείλη (GR)
Žena kojoj sam ćitao (HR)
A felolvasó (HU)
더 리더: 책 읽어주는 남자 (KR)
Skaitovas (LT)
Una pasión secreta (MX)
Lektor (PL)
Čitač (RS)
Bralec (SI)
Okuyucu (TR)

Release dates

19.02.2009 (AU)
13.02.2009 (ES)
22.01.2009 (SG)
12.03.2009 (SI)
13.03.2009 (PL)
08.01.2009 (GR)
20.02.2009 (IT)
05.03.2009 (MY)
02.01.2009 (GB)
10.12.2008 (US)
30.01.2009 (US)
23.04.2009 (CZ)
06.02.2009 (BR)
15.07.2009 (FR)
19.03.2009 (HK)
26.02.2009 (DE)
06.02.2009 (DE)

The Reader (2008)

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