The Reader

The Reader

  • Director: Stephen Daldry
  • Writer: David Hare,Bernhard Schlink
  • Countries of origin: Germany, United States
  • Language: English, German, Greek, Latin
  • Release date: January 30, 2009
  • Runtime: 2h 4min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Читець
  • "The Reader" is a feature film produced by Weinstein International Pictures, directed by Stephen David Daldry, starring Kate Winslet , David Kross , and Ralph Fiennes . The film premiered in New York, USA on December 10, 2008   .
    "The Reader" is based on the German writer Benhard Schlink 's novel of the same name. It tells an unforgettable love story between a teenager Mike and a middle-aged woman Hanna in the 1950s.

    Details

    • Release date January 30, 2009
    • Filming locations Kirnitzschtal, Sächsische Schweiz, Saxony, Germany
    • Production companies The Weinstein Company, Mirage Enterprises, Studio Babelsberg

    Box office

    Budget

    $32,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $34,194,407

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $168,051

    Gross worldwide

    $108,902,486

    Movie reviews

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    • By Blake 2022-04-24 07:01:04

      Watching Notes of [The Beauty of Immorality]


      There are several types of incestuous love. This type should be most liked by boys and teenagers, because it is boys and girls, and it satisfies the "Oedipus complex" that has been abused by others. So is this kind of love really just because of the so-called "Oedipus complex"? I don't think so. Of course, I don't understand love, and I don't understand analysis and I'm too lazy to analyze. Love is such a stinky piece of shit, you can always smell what you can smell, you don't have to...

    • By Vince 2022-04-23 07:01:33

      Some people, turn around, is a lifetime.

      After watching this film, I was depressed, still depressed, and couldn't release it for a long time.

          A 15-year-old boy falls in love with a woman who is 22 years older than him. This righteous woman helped the boy when he was helpless. This woman opened up his original desire and gave him the passion of love. Later, this woman left her without saying goodbye. When he thought he could forget this woman, they We met again in the court where war criminals were tried, and 22 years...

    • By Daphney 2022-04-23 07:01:33

      The Banality of Evil


      Here's a law student's reaction to the WWII guard's trial in The Reader.

      Student (angry) I used to believe in this trial. But now I think it's diversion

      Teacher: diversion from what?

      Student: They choose six women, and put them on trial. They say, they were the evil ones, they were the guilty ones. Because one of the victims happen to write a book. That's why they are on trial, and nobody else! Do you know how many camps there were in Europe? Everyone knew!...

    • By Zella 2022-04-23 07:01:33

      travel separately

      After reading The Reader, I actually wanted to cry.

      The DVD jacket is printed with a very emotional translation, called "Life and Death Reading", which makes people associate with sentences like "Life and Death". There will be more lingering sorrow in general. I prefer to translate it literally as "reader", which is emotionless, vague, and uncertain, just like how this movie made me feel, and my desire to cry has nothing to do with "life and death".

      The beginning of the...

    • By Freda 2022-04-23 07:01:33

      After reading this comment, I understand a little bit

      Saw the movie The Reader last month and then read the book. After reading it, I didn't quite understand the problems in the book, and I always read it as a love story, but I feel that what this book wants to convey to us will not be so simple.
           I read a review of People Weekly that day, and now I understand a little bit.



                         What kind of people love the streets of
          Berlin are "ordinary fascists", as the ancient Jews said: there is no righteous...

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    • By Kimberly 2023-09-11 09:22:29

      Kate Winslet is showing her ego in every frame and maintaining it in the most insane...

    • By Caitlyn 2023-08-16 17:59:34

      This film fits all my...

    • By Virgie 2023-07-23 11:22:22

      Love completes the...

    • By Cary 2023-05-26 22:44:44

      "I still want someone to read it to me," she said. But it's all over. But clearly, love never...

    • By Winifred 2023-05-10 01:55:17

      She burst into tears listening to the singing of the children in the church, but on the grounds of being loyal to her duty, she allowed 300 people to die. "It doesn't matter how I feel, what I think doesn't matter, the dead can't come back to life"; his love affair with her only lasted One summer at the age of 15, his incompetence completely changed his personality as an adult. He began to keep his mouth shut about his inner world. Facing Hannah's confession before her death, the daughter who...

    Movie plot

    In 1958, Germany was devastated after World War II. A 15-year-old boy named Mike Berg ( David Klaus ) living in Berlin suffered scarlet fever. When he returned home from school, he suddenly became vomiting. At this time, a man named Han Na ( Kate Winslet ) 's strange woman helped him. After recovering, he found Hannah to thank her, but the two quickly became involved in a passionate and secret relationship, although Hannah was much...
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    "Reader" is a wonderful movie that can be viewed and thought from many angles, and it will always be a complete movie. It can be a story about a boy’s growth, it can be about a woman’s life and her painful choice between dignity and suffering, it can be a narrative of the complex feelings of two people throughout their lives, and it can be spiritual. Power, it can be the entanglement of lust, the inquiry of ethics. At the same time, it...
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    Movie quotes

    • Young Ilana Mather: [Testifying in court] Each of the guards would choose a certain number of women. Hanna Schmitz chose differently.

      Judge: In what way differently?

      Young Ilana Mather: She had favourites. Girls, mostly young. We all remarked on it, she gave them food and places to sleep. In the evening, she asked them to join her. We all thought - well, you can imagine what we thought. Then we found out - she was making these women read aloud to her. They were reading to her. At first we thought this guard... this guard is more sensitive... she's more human... she's kinder. Often she chose the weak, the sick, she picked them out, she seemed to be protecting them almost. But then she dispatched them. Is that kinder?

    • Michael: I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, it will give it spice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete, and that thing is love.

    • Professor Rohl: You have been skipping seminars.

      Michael: I have a piece of information, concerning one of the defendants. Something they do not admitting.

      Professor Rohl: What information? You don't need to tell me. It's perfectly clear you have a moral obligation to disclose it to the court.

      Michael: It happens this information is favorable to the defendant. It can help her case. It may even affect the outcome, certainly the sentencing.

      Professor Rohl: So?

      Michael: There's a problem. The defendant herself is determined to keep this information secret.

      Professor Rohl: What are her reasons?

      Michael: Because she's ashamed.

      Professor Rohl: Ashamed of what? Have you spoken to her?

      Michael: Of course not.

      Professor Rohl: Why "of course not"?

      Michael: I can't. I can't do that. I can't talk to her.

      Professor Rohl: What we feel isn't important. It's utterly unimportant. The only question is what we do. If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me, then what the hell is the point of anything?