The Reader

The Reader is a 2008 film with Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. See the storyline, runtime (124 minutes) and complete cast list on 123movies. 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.