The Reader

Running 2h 4m and made in Germany, The Reader (2008) is a Drama and Romance film in the 123movies catalog. The cast includes Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet; Stephen Daldry directs. 3,519 votes put it at 7.5/10. 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.