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The Reader

2008 124 min Drama, Romance

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.

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1 win

  • 2008 ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (Hanna Schmitz) Kate Winslet

4 nominations

budget $32,000,000 earnings $108,902,486 return 3.4x

director Stephen Daldry

writer David Hare

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