THE READER [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: Academy Award winner Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) delivers a dynamic performance in this 'tale of eroticism, secrecy and guilt' (Claudia Puig, USA Today) set in turbulent post-Nazi Germany. Bringing to life the celebrated international novel, Winslet is riveting as Hanna Schmitz - a lonely, working class woman who experiences a brief but intense affair with a teenage boy. Years later they meet again: Hanna now a defendant in a notorious case and her ex-lover, now a law student, holding the secret to her salvation. Directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and featuring Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess) as the grown man still reeling from Hanna's influence, The Reader is a 'moving romantic and poignant story' (Roger Friedman, Fox News) about different distance between truth and reconciliation.
• Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, David Kross, Kate Winslet, Susanne Lothar, Alissa Wilms, Florian Bartholomäi, Friederike Becht, Matthias Habich, Frieder Venus, Marie-Anne Fliegel, Hendrik Arnst, Rainer Sellien, Torsten Michaelis, Moritz Grove, Joachim Tomaschewsky, Barbara Philipp, Hans Hohlbein, Jürgen Tarrach, Kirsten Block, Vijessna Ferkic, Vanessa Berthold, Benjamin Trinks, Fritz Roth, Hannah Herzsprung, Jacqueline Macaulay, Volker Bruch, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Max Mauff, Ludwig Blochberger, Jonas Jägermeyr, Alexander Kasprik, Burghart Klaußner, Sylvester Groth, Fabian Busch, Margarita Broich, Marie Gruber, Lena Lessing, Merelina Kendall, Hildegard Schroedter, Lena Olin, Alexandra Maria Lara, Martin Brambach, Michael Schenk, Ava Eusepi-Harris, Nadja Engel, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Petra Hartung, Linda Bassett, Beata Lehmann, Heike Hanold-Lynch, Bettina Scheuritzel, Robin Gooch, Thomas Borchardt, Alexandru Herca, Hendrik Maaß, Klemen Novak, Rich Odell, Daniele Rizzo, Sam Luca Scollin, Stephan Ziller, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
• Director: Stephen Daldry
• Runtime: 2:04
• Company: Weinstein Company
• Media Format: Movie