The Reader
10/12/2008
2h 4m

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.
Cast


Ralph Fiennes
Michael Berg


Kate Winslet
Hanna Schmitz


David Kross
Young Michael Berg


Lena Olin
Rose Mather


Bruno Ganz
Professor Rohl


Jeanette Hain
Brigitte


Hannah Herzsprung
Julia


Karoline Herfurth
Marthe


Volker Bruch
Dieter Spenz


Alexandra Maria Lara
Young Ilana Mather


Fabian Busch
Hanna's Defense Council


Vijessna Ferkic
Sophie


Susanne Lothar
Carla Berg


Matthias Habich
Peter Berg


Burghart Klaußner
Judge


Sylvester Groth
Prosecuting Council


Jürgen Tarrach
Gerhard Bade


Florian Bartholomäi
Thomas Berg


Moritz Grove
Holger


Kirsten Block
Female Judge


Margarita Broich
Co-Defendant


Marie Gruber
Co-Defendant


Martin Brambach
Remand Prison Guard #1


Carmen-Maja Antoni
Prison Librarian


Heike Hanold-Lynch
Prison Guard


Linda Bassett
Ms. Brenner


Ludwig Blochberger
Student


Benjamin Trinks
Holger's friend
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