The Reader

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-20 14:18

Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release

Genres: Romance and Adaptation

Release Date: December 12th, 2008 (limited) MPAA

Rating: R for some scenes of sexuality and nudity.

Distributors: Miramax Films, The Weinstein Company

Production Co.: Mirage Enterprises, Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH

Studios: The Weinstein Company

Financiers: FFA Filmfoerderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmfoerderfonds (DFFF)

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany

Produced in: United States

Description: When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15 year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. The two begin an unexpected and passionate affair only for Hanna to suddenly and inexplicably disappear. Eight years later, Michael, now a young law student observing Nazi war trials, meets his former lover again, under very different circumstances. Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime, and as she refuses to defend herself, Michael gradually realizes his boyhood love may be guarding a secret she considers to be more shameful than murder.