The read
A Balasaur Score of 69 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 63%, Metacritic 58/100. Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes63%
Metacritic58/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
3,469 audience votes
Key crew
- Nico MuhlyOriginal Music Composer
- David HareScreenplay
- Stephen DaldryDirector
Cast
- 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
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Themes
based on novel or bookgermanywar crimesworld war iiwomen's prisontrialfemale prisonerreading aloudlove affaircynicallaw studentteenage sexuality
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