The Reader

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, David Kross, Susanne Lothar, Kate Winslet, Florian Bartholomäi, Alissa Wilms, Matthias Habich, Friederike Becht, Marie-Anne Fliegel, Frieder Venus, Rainer Sellien, Hendrik Arnst, Moritz Grove, Torsten Michaelis

Director: Stephen Daldry

Rating: R

Studio: Weinstein Co.

Release date: January 9th, 2009

Synopsis:

The setting is contemporary Germany, where a man recounts the story of his erotic awakening in a covert love affair with an older woman in the wake of WWII.

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