Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know.
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.
DramaRomancebased on novel or bookgermanywar crimesworld war iiwomen's prisontrialfemale prisonerreading aloudlove affaircynicallaw studentteenage sexuality
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Cast
- Ralph FiennesMichael Berg
- Kate WinsletHanna Schmitz
- David KrossYoung Michael Berg
- Lena OlinRose Mather
- Bruno GanzProfessor Rohl
- Jeanette HainBrigitte
- Hannah HerzsprungJulia
- Karoline HerfurthMarthe
- Volker BruchDieter Spenz
- Alexandra Maria LaraYoung Ilana Mather
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- Stephen DaldryDirector
- David HareScreenplay
- Roger DeakinsDirector of Photography
- Chris MengesDirector of Photography
- Nico MuhlyOriginal Music Composer
- Claire SimpsonEditor
- Donna GigliottiProducer
- Anthony MinghellaProducer
- Sydney PollackProducer
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