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As a teenager in the late 1950s, German lawyer Michael Berg had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who later vanished. Years afterward, she resurfaces as a defendant in a war crimes trial, and he alone realizes she is illiterate.
- Directors
- Stephen Daldry
- Cast
- Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Hannah Herzsprung, Karoline Herfurth, Volker Bruch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Fabian Busch, Vijessna Ferkic, Susanne Lothar, Matthias Habich, Burghart Klaußner, Sylvester Groth, Jürgen Tarrach, Florian Bartholomäi, Moritz Grove, Kirsten Block
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Release date
- 2008-12-10
- Studios
- The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
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Michael Berg, a German lawyer, recalls his teenage affair in the late 1950s with an older woman, Hanna, who disappeared without explanation. Years later, she reappears as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial tied to her service as a concentration camp guard late in the war. Michael alone perceives that Hanna is illiterate and may be hiding that fact at the cost of her freedom.
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