THE READER [BLU-RAY]

Details

• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Drama; Romance
• Plot: Academy Award winner Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) delivers a dynamic performance in this 'tale of eroticism, secrecy and guilt' (Claudia Puig, USA Today) set in turbulent post-Nazi Germany. Bringing to life the celebrated international novel, Winslet is riveting as Hanna Schmitz - a lonely, working class woman who experiences a brief but intense affair with a teenage boy. Years later they meet again: Hanna now a defendant in a notorious case and her ex-lover, now a law student, holding the secret to her salvation. Directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and featuring Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess) as the grown man still reeling from Hanna's influence, The Reader is a 'moving romantic and poignant story' (Roger Friedman, Fox News) about different distance between truth and reconciliation.
• Cast: Ralph Fiennes; Jeanette Hain; David Kross; Kate Winslet; Susanne Lothar; Alissa Wilms; Florian Bartholomäi; Friederike Becht; Matthias Habich; Frieder Venus; Marie-Anne Fliegel; Hendrik Arnst; Rainer Sellien; Torsten Michaelis; Moritz Grove; Joachim Tomaschewsky; Barbara Philipp; Hans Hohlbein; Jürgen Tarrach; Kirsten Block; Vijessna Ferkic; Vanessa Berthold; Benjamin Trinks; Fritz Roth; Hannah Herzsprung; Jacqueline Macaulay; Volker Bruch; Bruno Ganz; Karoline Herfurth; Max Mauff; Ludwig Blochberger; Jonas Jägermeyr; Alexander Kasprik; Burghart Klaußner; Sylvester Groth; Fabian Busch; Margarita Broich; Marie Gruber; Lena Lessing; Merelina Kendall; Hildegard Schroedter; Lena Olin; Alexandra Maria Lara; Martin Brambach; Michael Schenk; Ava Eusepi-Harris; Nadja Engel; Anne-Kathrin Gummich; Carmen-Maja Antoni; Petra Hartung; Linda Bassett; Beata Lehmann; Heike Hanold-Lynch; Bettina Scheuritzel; Robin Gooch; Thomas Borchardt; Alexandru Herca; Hendrik Maaß; Klemen Novak; Rich Odell; Daniele Rizzo; Sam Luca Scollin; Stephan Ziller; Stephen Daldry; David Hare; Bernhard Schlink
• Director: Stephen Daldry
• Runtime: 2:04
• Company: Weinstein Company
• Media Format: Movie