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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Stephen Daldry
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Actors:
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Matthias Habich,
Susanne Lothar,
Alissa Wilms,
Florian Bartholomäi,
Friederike Becht,
Frieder Venus,
Ralph Fiennes,
Jeanette Hain,
David Kross,
Kate Winslet
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Duration:
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124 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)274.5
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Plot Summary:
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THE READER opens in notify-WWII Germany when kid Michael Berg becomes vile and is helped haven next to Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are on the double drawn into a passionate but close liaison. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Scrap Dog." Regardless of their extreme cohere, Hanna mysteriously disappears one age and Michael is leftist confused and dejected. Eigh... t years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war wrong trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his spark of life - this tempo as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a abstruse secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a horror story less truth and reconciliation, approximately how united generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.
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The Reader
An Oscar-winning Kate Winslet stars as a thirtysomething tram conductor in post-war Germany who is later revealed to be a former SS guard party to untold Holocaust atrocities, Winslet is undoubtedly the star of this film. She dominates each section of its three-part narrative and features in virtually every scene of Stephen Daldry's intelligent adaptation of the Bernhard Schlink novel, which asks provocative questions about collective guilt and the burden of the past on subsequent generations Beginning in the West German town of Neustadt An Der Weinstra??e in 1958, The Reader opens when Michael Berg (David Kross), a teenager with scarlet fever, is helped home by Hanna Schmitz (Winslet), a stranger almost twice his age. Returning to thank her for her kindness,...
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