The Reader

Overview: 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.

Status: Released

Revenue: $108,902,486.00

Budget: $32,000,000.00

Release date: December 10, 2008

Countries of origin: Germany, United States of America,

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