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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.

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Genres:

Drama, Romance

Cast:

Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz

Production:

Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmförderanstalt (FFA), The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutsche Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Studio Babelsberg, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)

Country:

Germany, United States of America

Duration:

124 m