The Reader

2008 · Directed by Stephen Daldry · 124 min · drama film, prison film, romance film

★ 7.5/10 · 3,474 ratings on TMDB

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.