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The Reader
When 15 year old Michael was coming back from school he becomes sick and gets helped by a woman in her thirties. Ten years later they encounter each other and discover that she is facing a war-crime trial.
















1950, Zittau, Saxony, Germany

5 October 1968, Berlin, Germany

6 April 1940, Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

13 September 1949, Berlin, Germany

19 October 1965, Berlin, Germany

15 October 1990, Berlin, Germany

1955, Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

1938, Paddington, London, England, UK

12 November 1978, Bucharest, Romania

1950, Weimar, Germany

14 October 1986, Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

9 March 1980, Munich, Germany

7 September 1981, Hamburg, West Germany

31 March 1958, Jerichow, East Germany

21 December 1965, Osnabrück, Germany

28 April 1987, Germany

1983, Berlin, Germany

23 August 1945, Berlin, Germany

17 December 1960, Geilenkirchen, Germany

11 June 1955, Wuppertal, Germany


2 April 2002

11 July 1962, Berlin, Germany

5 October 1975, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

7 September 1985, Potsdam, German Democratic Republic

10 January 1987, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

15 November 1960, Hamburg, Germany

22 May 1984, Berlin, Germany

6 October 1969

1953, Berlin, Germany



October 20, 2010
Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving.
September 17, 2010
A decades-spanning drama that dives into the slippery human nature of lust, manipulation, retribution and doubt. "The Reader" is a phenomenally tragic story of people eternally connected, never knowing whether it's by true love or unshakable regret.
September 28, 2011
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues.
January 05, 2009
Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.
September 29, 2012
The film's exploration of the Holocaust's fallout on subsequent generations is harrowing.
December 30, 2008
The trial's outcome leads us into a third act that continues to give renewed, rending meaning to the movie's title.
April 08, 2009
If Winslet carries the complex psychological intrigue of the film on her shoulders, David Kross carries the heart of it on his.
March 24, 2011
A film that will haunt you for months with its fleeting and subtle examinations on morality, love and guilt.
January 08, 2009
An airless vacuum labeled Serious Film
December 30, 2008
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.
July 06, 2010
Stephen Daldry's film is sensitively realized and dramatically absorbing, but comes across as an essentially cerebral experience without gut impact.