Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Writer
- David Hare
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $32,000,000
Cast
Alexandra Maria Lara
Bruno Ganz
David Kross
Hannah Herzsprung
Jeanette Hain
Karoline Herfurth
Kate Winslet
Lena Olin
Ralph Fiennes
Volker Bruch
Keywords
based on novel or book
cautionary
complex
courtroom drama
cruel
cynical
depressing
disheartening
embarrassed
female prisoner
frantic
germany
law student
literacy
love affair
older woman younger man relationship
reading aloud
reading to someone
secret lover
shame
teenage sexuality
tragic
trial
war crimes
west germany
women's prison
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