The Reader

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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  Ralph FiennesMichael Berg
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  Kate WinsletHanna Schmitz
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  David KrossYoung Michael Berg
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  Lena OlinRose Mather
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  Bruno GanzProfessor Rohl
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  Jeanette HainBrigitte
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  Hannah HerzsprungJulia
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  Karoline HerfurthMarthe
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  Volker BruchDieter Spenz
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  Alexandra Maria LaraYoung Ilana Mather