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.
Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Crew: Roger Deakins (Director of Photography), Donna Gigliotti (Producer), Brigitte Broch (Production Design), Anthony Minghella (Producer), Simone Bär (Casting), Eva Stiebler (Set Decoration)
Country: Germany, United States of America
Language: English, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Latin
Studio: The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
Runtime: 124 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 10, 2008
IMDb: 3.529
Keywords:based on novel or book, germany, war crimes, women's prison, trial, female prisoner, reading aloud, love affair, cynical, law student, teenage sexuality, older woman younger man relationship, reading to someone, secret lover, shame, literacy, frantic, west germany, courtroom drama, complex, cautionary, depressing, cruel, disheartening, embarrassed, tragic
