
The Reader
2008 · Film · 124 min
Directed by Stephen Daldry
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.
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Reminded me "Reader" the movie. Even it's not reading as a living, it's still reading for something _interesting_.
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