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.
24 April 1967, Doncaster, England, UK
1964, Berlin, Germany
12 January 1940, Danzig, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
31 March 1958, Jerichow, East Germany
2 April 2002
3 July 1987, Berlin, Germany
22 March 1941, Zürich-Seebach, Switzerland
18 February 1969, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
1965
19 January 1984, Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
1988
23 August 1945, Berlin, Germany
1995
31 March 1919, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
1950, Zittau, Saxony, Germany
1983, Berlin, Germany
19 October 1965, Berlin, Germany
22 March 1955, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
17 December 1960, Geilenkirchen, Germany
4 February 1950, Pluckley, Kent, England, UK
1 October 1975, East Berlin, East Germany
10 January 1987, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
7 September 1985, Potsdam, German Democratic Republic
7 September 1981, Hamburg, West Germany
3 December 1982, Berlin, Germany
3 May 1960, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
30 November 1959, Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic
5 October 1960, Berlin, Germany
1953, Berlin, Germany
March 24, 2011
A film that will haunt you for months with its fleeting and subtle examinations on morality, love and guilt.
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.
December 30, 2008
The Reader is a bold and provocative film and one of the most exquisite of 2008.
October 20, 2010
Manipulative and flawed, but interesting and occasionally moving.
September 29, 2012
The film's exploration of the Holocaust's fallout on subsequent generations is harrowing.
July 06, 2010
Stephen Daldry's film is sensitively realized and dramatically absorbing, but comes across as an essentially cerebral experience without gut impact.
January 08, 2009
An airless vacuum labeled Serious Film
September 28, 2011
A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues.
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.
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.
January 05, 2009
Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.

