The Reader

• Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz
• Duration: 124 minutes
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Rating: 7.47/10
• Release Date: 2008-12-10

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.