The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Release Date: 2008-12-10

Genres: Drama ,Romance

Director: Stephen Daldry

Actors: Kate Winslet ,Ralph Fiennes ,David Kross ,Lena Olin ,Bruno Ganz ,Jeanette Hain ,Hannah Herzsprung ,Karoline Herfurth ,Volker Bruch ,Alexandra Maria Lara

Duration: 2h 4m

IMDB rating: 7.5