The Reader
10/12/2008
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.
Movie Information
Kate Winslet
as Hanna Schmitz
Ralph Fiennes
as Michael Berg
David Kross
as Young Michael Berg
Lena Olin
as Rose Mather
Bruno Ganz
as Professor Rohl
Jeanette Hain
as Brigitte
Hannah Herzsprung
as Julia
Karoline Herfurth
as Marthe
Volker Bruch
as Dieter Spenz
Alexandra Maria Lara
as Young Ilana Mather
Fabian Busch
as Hanna's Defense Council
Vijessna Ferkic
as Sophie
Susanne Lothar
as Carla Berg
Matthias Habich
as Peter Berg
Burghart Klaußner
as Judge
Sylvester Groth
as Prosecuting Council
Jürgen Tarrach
as Gerhard Bade
Florian Bartholomäi
as Thomas Berg
Moritz Grove
as Holger
Kirsten Block
as Female Judge
Margarita Broich
as Co-Defendant
Marie Gruber
as Co-Defendant
Martin Brambach
as Remand Prison Guard #1
Carmen-Maja Antoni
as Prison Librarian
Heike Hanold-Lynch
as Prison Guard
Linda Bassett
as Ms. Brenner
Ludwig Blochberger
as Student
Benjamin Trinks
as Holger's friend
