The Reader

2008 7.5 (3207 votes) 2h 4m

Genres

Drama Romance

Production Companies

The Weinstein Company
Mirage Enterprises
Studio Babelsberg

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.