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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.
