The Reader 2008
DramaRomance
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
Crew
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Writers
- David Hare
- Producers
- Donna Gigliotti, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Redmond Morris
- Executive Producers
- Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
- Editing
- Claire Simpson
- Composer
- Nico Muhly
- Production Design
- Brigitte Broch
- Costume Design
- Donna Maloney, Ann Roth
Details
- Release date
- Dec 10, 2008
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $32,000,000
- Revenue
- $108,902,486
- Studios
- The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
- Language
- English, German, Greek, Latin
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