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The Reader

Movie (2008)

Tells 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 at the expense of her freedom.

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Released:	Dec 10th, 2008
Budget:	$32,000,000.00
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Ralph Fiennes
plays Michael Berg

Jeanette Hain
plays Brigitte

David Kross
plays Young Michael Berg

Kate Winslet
plays Hanna Schmitz

Susanne Lothar
plays Carla Berg

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Producers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella both died before the completion of the movie. As the film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, the Academy made an exception from their rules not to name more than three producers as nominees because of this rare circumstance. In the end the two producers Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris who took over duties were nominated as well as the posthumously honored Minghella and Pollack.
To avoid legal consequences, the crew delayed the filming of sexually explicit scenes until after actor David Kross' 18th birthday on July 4 2008.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): Michael wraps the cassette tapes he is sending Hanna in contemporary thin foam wrapping paper which was not available in the 1970s.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): In the first student campus scene, the date is given on screen as 1966. The music playing in the background is "I Keep Singing That Same Old Song" by Heavy Jelly, which was not released until June 1969.

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