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.
Release: 2008
Rating: 7.466
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 124 min
Country: Germany, United States of America
Production: The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg
Ralph Fiennes
as Michael Berg
Kate Winslet
as Hanna Schmitz
David Kross
as Young Michael Berg
Lena Olin
as Rose Mather
Bruno Ganz
as Professor Rohl
Jeanette Hain
as Brigitte