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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  Ralph Fiennes

  Michael Berg
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  Kate Winslet

  Hanna Schmitz
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  David Kross

  Young Michael Berg
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  Lena Olin

  Rose Mather
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  Bruno Ganz

  Professor Rohl
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  Jeanette Hain

  Brigitte
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  Hannah Herzsprung

  Julia
• 
  Karoline Herfurth

  Marthe
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  Volker Bruch

  Dieter Spenz
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  Alexandra Maria Lara

  Young Ilana Mather