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.
Drama, Romance
Studio Babelsberg, Filmförderanstalt (FFA), The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutsche Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)
Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg, David Kross as Young Michael Berg, Jeanette Hain as Brigitte, Bruno Ganz as Professor Rohl, Hannah Herzsprung as Julia, Karoline Herfurth as Marthe, Volker Bruch as Dieter Spenz, Alexandra Maria Lara as Young Ilana Mather, Fabian Busch as Hanna's Defense Council, Vijessna Ferkic as Sophie, Susanne Lothar as Carla Berg, Matthias Habich as Peter Berg, Burghart Klaußner as Richter, Sylvester Groth as Staatsanwalt, Jürgen Tarrach as Gerhard Bade, Florian Bartholomäi as Thomas Berg, Moritz Grove as Holger, Kirsten Block as Richterin, Fabian Busch as Verteidiger, Margarita Broich as Verteidigerin, Marie Gruber as Verteidigerin, Lena Olin as Rose Mather, Martin Brambach as Gefängniswärter, Carmen-Maja Antoni as Gefangene, Heike Hanold-Lynch as Gefängniswärterin