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.

• Stephen DaldryDirector
• David HareScreenplay
• Nico MuhlyOriginal Music Composer

• Ralph FiennesMichael Berg
• Kate WinsletHanna Schmitz
• David KrossYoung Michael Berg
• Lena OlinRose Mather
• Bruno GanzProfessor Rohl
• Jeanette HainBrigitte
• Hannah HerzsprungJulia
• Karoline HerfurthMarthe
• Volker BruchDieter Spenz
• Alexandra Maria LaraYoung Ilana Mather
• Fabian BuschHanna's Defense Council
• Vijessna FerkicSophie