The Reader
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.
Keywords:
Based on novel or book
Germany
War crimes
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
Movie tag line: "Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know."
