The Reader Kate Winslet. The Reader Promotional Stills Kate Winslet Photo (5896934) Fanpop Kate Winslet and David Kross in "The Reader." The crucial decision in "The Reader" is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.
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Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. In post-WWII Germany, a law student finds the older woman with whom he had an affair eight years ago, among Nazi prison guards being tried for murder.
THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross Studio Lionsgate Kate Winslet and David Kross in "The Reader." The crucial decision in "The Reader" is made by a 24-year-old youth, who has information that might help a woman about to be sentenced to life in prison, but withholds it
Kate Winslet The Reader High Resolution Stock Photography and Images Alamy. A man reunites with an older woman with whom he had a brief romance with when he was fifteen, only to discover, to his horror, that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes case. Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her.
The Reader Kate Winslet. The Reader, a hushed and haunting meditation on these knotty questions, is sorrowful and shocking, yet leavened by a deep love story that is its heart The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a sexual relationship with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz.