The Reader 2008

The Reader (2008) is a Drama and Romance film from Germany in the lookmovie catalog, running 2h 4m. Directed by Stephen Daldry, it features Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. Viewers rate it 7.5/10 from 3,521 votes. 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.