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Running Time
123
min
Release Date
Jan 9, 2009
The Reader
Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her. Then Hanna mysteriously disappears, leaving Michael heartbroken and confused. Years later, Michael, now a law student, gets the shock of his life when he sees Hanna on trial for Nazi war crimes.
Starring
| Kate Winslet | Hanna Schmitz |
| Ralph Fiennes | Older Michael |
| David Kross | Young Michael |
| Lena Olin | Rose Mather/Ilana Mather |
| Bruno Ganz | Professor Rohl |
| Alexandra Lara | Young Ilana Mather |
| Hannah Herzsprung | Julia |
| Volker Bruch | Dieter |
| Jeanette Hain | Brigitte |
| Moritz Grove | Holger |
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Late into "The Reader," the movie's young German protagonist, Michael Berg (David Kross), visits Auschwitz concentration camp well after the end of WWII. The camera surveys the dreary landscape and finds several giant cages of shoes. It's a scene as superfluous as the movie itself is irksome.
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