Title The Reader Overview 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. Tagline Behind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know. Genres Drama, Romance Keywords germany, war crimes, trial, female prisoner, teenager, law student, teenage sexuality, older woman younger man relationship, teenage sex, affair Production Companies Studio Babelsberg, Filmförderanstalt FFA , The Weinstein Company, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mirage Enterprises, Filmförderungsanstalt FFA , Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Deutsche Filmförderfonds DFFF , Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung MDM Production Countries Germany, United States of America Spoken Languages English, Deutsch, ελληνικά, Latin Original Language en Runtime minutes 124 Release Year 2008
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 113 million USD