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film by Stephen Daldry

The Reader is a romanticdrama film directed by Stephen Daldry, written by David Hare on the basis of the novel by Bernhard Schlink, and starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth.

The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a year-old in , has a sexual relationship with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. She disappears only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Naziconcentration camp.

Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past&#;– a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial. Some historians criticised the film for making Schmitz an object of the audience's sympathy and accused the filmmakers of Holocaust revisionism.^[4]

The Reader was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died p