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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.
Theatrical
Jan 30, 2009
Box Office
$108.9M
Budget
$32.0M
Return
3.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 14, 2009
Director
Stephen Daldry
Writer
David Hare
Producers
Anthony Minghella, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
Music
Nico Muhly
Studio
The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
Themes
germany
based on novel or book
war crimes
world war ii
women's prison
trial
female prisoner
reading aloud
love affair
cynical
law student
teenage sexuality
older woman younger man relationship
reading to someone
secret lover
shame
literacy
frantic
west germany
courtroom drama
complex
cautionary
depressing
cruel
disheartening
embarrassed
tragic
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Cast
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Ralph Fiennes
Michael Berg
Kate Winslet
Hanna Schmitz
D
David Kross
Young Michael Berg
L
Lena Olin
Rose Mather
B
Bruno Ganz
Professor Rohl
J
Jeanette Hain
Brigitte
H
Hannah Herzsprung
Julia
K
Karoline Herfurth
Marthe
V
Volker Bruch
Dieter Spenz
A
Alexandra Maria Lara
Young Ilana Mather
F
Fabian Busch
Hanna's Defense Council
V
Vijessna Ferkic
Sophie
S
Susanne Lothar
Carla Berg
M
Matthias Habich
Peter Berg
B
Burghart Klaußner
Judge
S
Sylvester Groth
Prosecuting Council
J
Jürgen Tarrach
Gerhard Bade
F
Florian Bartholomäi
Thomas Berg
M
Moritz Grove
Holger
K
Kirsten Block
Female Judge
