The Reader — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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

Directed by Stephen Daldry

• Ralph Fiennes
  as Michael Berg
• Kate Winslet
  as Hanna Schmitz
• David Kross
  as Young Michael Berg
• Lena Olin
  as Rose Mather
• Bruno Ganz
  as Professor Rohl
• Jeanette Hain
  as Brigitte