# The Reader (2008)

English · Released 2008-12-10

The Reader is a 2008 English film. Kate Winslet appears in it.

Cast: Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz

## Storyline
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.

## Common questions

### When was The Reader released?
The Reader was released on 10 December 2008.

### Who stars in The Reader?
Kate Winslet star in The Reader.

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