Cast Ralph Fiennes
Kate Winslet
David Kross
Lena Olin
Bruno Ganz
Screenwriter
David Hare
Director
Steven Daldry
Running Time
124 minutes
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. (The Weinstein Company)
Thoroughly absorbing, well told and interesting story but it didn't move me. The critical events had happened years before and should have haunted the film and Winslet's character but the sense of that was largely absent.
