The Reader

The Reader
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Directed byStephen Daldry
Screenplay byDavid Hare
Based onDer Vorleser
by Bernhard Schlink
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byClaire Simpson
Music byNico Muhly
Production
companies
  • Mirage Enterprises
  • Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH
Distributed by
Release dates
  • December 12, 2008 (2008-12-12) (United States)
  • February 26, 2009 (2009-02-26) (Germany)
Running time
124 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Germany[2]
  • United States
Languages
  • English
  • (German)
Budget$32 million[3]
Box office$108.9 million[3]

The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama movie directed by Stephen Daldry, scripted by David Hare, adapting the 1995 German novel Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink, and starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, and Karoline Herfurth. The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a Berlin lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a brief summer love affair with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She abruptly leaves, only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past — a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial.

The Reader was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release. Production began in September 2007, and the film opened in limited release on 10 December, 2008. It received average to favourable reviews from critics, with praise for Winslet and Kross's performances, but with some faults in its screenplay and direction. For her performance, Winslet won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Other websites


  1. "The Reader (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2013-06-17. Approved Running time 123m 48s{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. Dargis, Manohla (December 9, 2008). "Innocence Is Lost in Postwar Germany". The New York Times. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "The Reader (2008)". Box Office Mojo. 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-12-30.

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