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Running Time
123
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Release Date
Jan 9, 2009
Related Movies
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Michael Berg (David Kross), a teenager in postwar Germany, enters into a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a much older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her. But, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day, leaving Michael heartbroken and confused. Years later, Michael, now a law student, gets the shock of his life when he sees Hanna on trial for Nazi war crimes.
Starring
| Kate Winslet | Hanna Schmitz |
| Ralph Fiennes | Older Michael |
| David Kross | Young Michael |
| Lena Olin | Rose Mather/Ilana Mather |
| Bruno Ganz | Professor Rohl |
| Alexandra Lara | Young Ilana Mather |
| Hannah Herzsprung | Julia |
| Volker Bruch | Dieter |
| Jeanette Hain | Brigitte |
| Moritz Grove | Holger |
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Can a formidable actress redeem a pile of solemn erotic kitsch? Kate Winslet answers that one as honestly as she can in the film version of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel "The Reader," the tale of a 15-year-old West German boy who, in 1958, embarks on an affair with a 36-year-old trolley conductor with more on her mind, and in her past, than she admits.
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