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Director: Stephen Daldry
Producers: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack & Scitt Rudin
Writer: David Hare
Music: Nico Muhly
Release Date: Feb 26, 2009 (Hong Kong)
Running Time:  124 mins.
Budget:  US$32 million

The Reader

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

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It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what I feel. The dead are still dead.

"What we feel isn't important. It's utterly unimportant. The only question is what we do. If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me, then what the hell is the point of anything?"

I watched this movie because it's now famous. Not quite moved by the 1st part of the movie but it started picking up with the beginning of the trials. I am no fan of Kate Winslet and yet thought she had indeed done a good job in interpreting Hanna.

Cast


Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz


Ralph Fiennes as Michael Berg

David Kross as Young Michael Berg


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