The Reader Kate Winslet. Starring: Kate Winslet Ralph Fiennes David Kross Susanne Lothar Alissa Wilms Jeanette Hain Florian Bartholomäi In postwar Germany, young schoolboy Michael (German actor David Cross) meets and begins a tender romance with the older, mysterious Hanna (Kate Winslet, whose performance is a revelation).
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Michael is diagnosed with scarlet fever and must rest at home for the next three months 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 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, written by David Hare on the basis of the 1995 novel 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 German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a sexual relationship with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.
Kate Winslet The Reader. 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 In postwar Germany, young schoolboy Michael (German actor David Cross) meets and begins a tender romance with the older, mysterious Hanna (Kate Winslet, whose performance is a revelation).
. By making this decision, he shifts the film's focus from the subject. 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.