
The Reader (2008)
7.5|10 Dec, 2008|124 min
Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
7.5|10 Dec, 2008|124 min
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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.
Language
Budget$32,000,000
Revenue $108,902,486
English,
Deutsch,
ελληνικά,
Latin
Budget$32,000,000
Revenue $108,902,486
Keywords
based on novel or book
germany
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
Casts

Ralph Fiennes
Michael Berg

Kate Winslet
Hanna Schmitz

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

Fabian Busch
Hanna's Defense Council

Vijessna Ferkic
Sophie

Susanne Lothar
Carla Berg

Matthias Habich
Peter Berg

Burghart Klaußner
Judge

Sylvester Groth
Prosecuting Council

Jürgen Tarrach
Gerhard Bade

Florian Bartholomäi
Thomas Berg

Moritz Grove
Holger

Kirsten Block
Female Judge

Margarita Broich
Co-Defendant

Marie Gruber
Co-Defendant

Martin Brambach
Remand Prison Guard #1

Carmen-Maja Antoni
Prison Librarian

Heike Hanold-Lynch
Prison Guard

Linda Bassett
Ms. Brenner

Ludwig Blochberger
Student

Benjamin Trinks
Holger's friend
Crews

Stephen Daldry
Director

Chris Menges
Director of Photography

David Hare
Screenplay

Anthony Minghella
Producer
Donna Gigliotti
Producer
Redmond Morris
Producer

Sydney Pollack
Producer

Nico Muhly
Original Music Composer

Roger Deakins
Director of Photography

Claire Simpson
Editor

Simone Bär
Casting

Jina Jay
Casting

Brigitte Broch
Production Design
Stefan Hauck
Art Direction
Erwin Prib
Art Direction
Yeşim Zolan
Art Direction
Karin Betzler
Set Decoration
Eva Stiebler
Set Decoration
Donna Maloney
Costume Design

Ann Roth
Costume Design
Barbara Jean Kearney
Digital Intermediate
Anja Fromm
Art Direction
Linda Melazzo
Makeup Artist
Katri Billard
Script Supervisor
Linda Gamble
Unit Publicist
Susanna Lenton
Script Supervisor
Annette Kudrak
Music Editor
Christian M. Goldbeck
Supervising Art Director

Harvey Weinstein
Executive Producer
Anu Schwartz
Art Direction
Gabriele Kent-Horspool
Makeup Artist
Chris Lyons
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Peter Owen
Wig Designer
Annett Schulze
Makeup Artist
Matthew Smith
Prosthetic Designer
Anna Von Gwinner
Makeup Artist
Maria Torfeld
Makeup Artist

Jason Blum
Co-Executive Producer

Christoph Fisser
Co-Producer

Henning Molfenter
Co-Producer

Carl Woebcken
Co-Producer
George A. Lara
Foley Mixer
Eric Hirsch
Sound Recordist
Harry Higgins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Michael Fowler
ADR Mixer
Lee Dichter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Marko Costanzo
Foley Artist
Bernhard Schlink
Book

Bob Weinstein
Executive Producer
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