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The Reader (2008)

7.7 Listal rating
7.7 IMDB rating

3 Videos

177 Pictures

5 Reviews

39 Lists

196 Ratings

Drama (9), Romance (7), Nazi (5), 2008 (5), 2000s (4), Historical (4), War (4), Trial (3), Germany (2), WWII (2), Literature (2), History (2), (2), Holocaust (1), Lawyer (1), Love (1), Oscar Winner (1), Youth (1), World War 2 (1), Nazis (1)

Description

THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship d ... (more)


Trailers for The Reader

The Reader Featurette

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The Reader Trailer

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Starring (View all) :
Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Michael Berg
Jeanette Hain

Jeanette Hain

Brigitte
David Kross

David Kross

Young Michael Berg
Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Hanna Schmitz
Susanne Lothar

Susanne Lothar

Carla Berg
Alissa Wilms

Alissa Wilms

Emily Berg
Friederike Becht

Friederike Becht

Angela Berg
Matthias Habich

Matthias Habich

Peter Berg


Written by (View all) :
David Hare

David Hare

(screenplay)


Videos

"The Reader" - Trailer

The New movie with Kate Winslet.

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Oscar Nominations 2009 (50 items) by Tom

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Oscar Winners ~ 2009 (12 items) by lethaargic

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Review

Posted : 3 months, 1 week ago at Aug 10 0:05
I just watched and I still can't figure it out everything the movie wanted me to understand. It is a really sad, touching, beautiful, melancholic movie. Kate Winslet is amazing as Hanna and Ralph/David were just as good as David. It is a sad love story where a series of events never let this couple, that probably wouldn't work out, together for more than one summer. How time can make it a lot of things pass but some are impossible not to remember. One of the best movies I saw this year so far.

Rating : 8/10

Overt Oscar bait

Posted : 6 months, 1 week ago at May 18 2:21
"I can't live without you. The thought of leaving you kills me. Do you love me?" The Reader is one of those motion pictures which feels specifically tailored for a December release. An adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 international bestseller, this is a mature historical drama laced with nudity, compelling themes, suppressed emotion and a few twists. It's quite telling that producer Harvey Weinstein rushed the film's production to ensure its place in the 2008 Oscar race. At any other time of the year, such a movie would frankly feel out of place. Directed by Stephen Daldry (his first feature since 2002's The Hours), The Reader is blatant Oscar bait, but the makers' overconfidence in their product is palpable from the outset...and the result is closer to a near miss than a rousing s...Read more

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Posted : 9 months ago at Feb 24 0:35
Possibly the best of the five movies Oscar nominated for Best Movie in 2008. Leaves you with conflicting emotions for the protagonist played by Kate Winslet (who puts in a stellar performance), who was a Nazi prison guard in a Jewish concentration camp. The movie falls short of perfection in the home stretch. I felt like the film-makers were soft-pedalling the horror of the Holocaust, even if their intention was to put a human face on Winslet's character. Still, any movie that makes me think is worth it's weight in gold.

Rating : 9/10

Amor didático

Posted : 9 months, 1 week ago at Feb 12 8:23
"O Leitor", mesmo tendo um forte contexto histórico (pós 2ª Guerra Mundial), se propõe a falar de sentimentos. Narra a história de um garoto, Michael Berg, que se apaixona por uma mulher, Hanna Schmitz, já com o dobro de sua idade e que mantém um caso com esta. Com o passar do tempo, ele lê livros para ela (por isso "O Leitor). Anos mais tarde, já há tempos sem vê-la, o garoto, já universitário em Direito, reencontra-a no banco do réu. David Kross, como o garoto, e Kate Winslet, como a mulher, formam um casal com perfeita compatibilidade em cena. Este primeiro se revela como um competente ator que se completa com o talento já reconhecido de Kate Winlet. Winslet também merece mérito por sua sensível e emocionante atuação. Quando em cena, as câmeras se rendem à sua b...Read more

Rating : 8/10

A successful historical adapt of sorts.

Posted : 9 months, 1 week ago at Feb 11 13:06
''I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you ended it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.'' Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. Ralph Fiennes: Michael Berg The Reader is one of those diverse films and stories that has the eccentric audacity to be both moving, emotional, historical yet also focusing on aspects such as relationships, justice and...Read more

Rating : 9/10