The Reader · 2008
The Reader
«Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.»
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.
TMDB
7.5
IMDb
7.6
RT
63%
Metacritic
58/100
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- Budget
- US$32,000,000
- Worldwide revenue
- US$108,902,486
- Profit
- US$76,902,486
- Box office (US)
- $34,194,407
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 26 wins & 48 nominations total
- Production companies
- The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
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