UBC Film Society

The Reader

2008, Rated: 18A, 124min

It doesn’t matter what I feel. It doesn’t matter what I think. The dead are still dead.

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Directed by
Stephen Daldry
Written by
David Hare & Bernhard Schlink (novel)
Starring
Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, & Kate Winslet

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