The Reader
Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
Rating
7.5 The Film
The Reader
Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
The Story
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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Gallery
The Stills.
