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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
US
Genres:
Drama, Romance
Release:
December 2008
Production:
The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
Cast:
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Volker Bruch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Fabian Busch, Vijessna Ferkic, Susanne Lothar, Matthias Habich, Burghart Klaußner, Sylvester Groth, Jürgen Tarrach, Florian Bartholomäi, Moritz Grove, Kirsten Block, Margarita Broich, Marie Gruber, Martin Brambach, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Heike Hanold-Lynch, Linda Bassett, Ludwig Blochberger, Benjamin Trinks
Tags:
based on novel or book, germany, war crimes, women's prison, trial, female prisoner, reading aloud, love affair, cynical, law student, teenage sexuality, older woman younger man relationship, reading to someone, secret lover, shame, literacy, frantic, west germany, courtroom drama, complex, cautionary, depressing, cruel, defiant, disheartening, embarrassed, tragic
