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The Reader
When 15 year old Michael was coming back from school he becomes sick and gets helped by a woman in her thirties. Ten years later they encounter each other and discover that she is facing a war-crime trial.
12 January 1940, Danzig, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
5 October 1968, Berlin, Germany
1950, Weimar, Germany
13 September 1949, Berlin, Germany
6 April 1940, Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
10 January 1987, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
31 January 1961, Berlin, German Democratic Republic
9 March 1980, Munich, Germany
3 May 1960, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1950, Zittau, Saxony, Germany
1 October 1975, East Berlin, East Germany
28 April 1987, Germany
4 September 1964, East Berlin, East Germany
5 October 1975, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
31 March 1919, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
14 October 1986, Bad Bergzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
19 October 1965, Berlin, Germany
1988
11 July 1962, Berlin, Germany
30 November 1959, Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic
31 March 1958, Jerichow, East Germany
1967, Dresden, German Democratic Republic
23 August 1945, Berlin, Germany
1982, Hamburg, Germany
March 24, 2011
A film that will haunt you for months with its fleeting and subtle examinations on morality, love and guilt.
September 17, 2010
A decades-spanning drama that dives into the slippery human nature of lust, manipulation, retribution and doubt. "The Reader" is a phenomenally tragic story of people eternally connected, never knowing whether it's by true love or unshakable regret.
September 29, 2012
The film's exploration of the Holocaust's fallout on subsequent generations is harrowing.
October 20, 2010
Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving.
January 05, 2009
Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.
September 28, 2011
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues.
July 06, 2010
Stephen Daldry's film is sensitively realized and dramatically absorbing, but comes across as an essentially cerebral experience without gut impact.
December 30, 2008
The trial's outcome leads us into a third act that continues to give renewed, rending meaning to the movie's title.
December 30, 2008
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.
January 08, 2009
An airless vacuum labeled Serious Film
April 08, 2009
If Winslet carries the complex psychological intrigue of the film on her shoulders, David Kross carries the heart of it on his.
