The key evidence in the trial is the testimony of Ilana Mather, author of a memoir relating how she and her mother Rose, who also testifies, survived. There Michael is stunned to see that Hanna is one of these defendants. As part of a special seminar, the students observe a trial (similar to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials) of several former SS guards accused of letting 300 Jewish women and children perish in a burning church during the death march following one of the evacuation of concentration camps near Krakow, Poland. In 1966, Michael is at Heidelberg University Law School. After a bicycling trip with Michael, Hanna learns that she was promoted to a clerical job at the tram's head offices, upon which she suddenly leaves the company and her home, without telling Michael or anyone else where or why she has vanished. They spend much of their time together having sex in her apartment, after which she has had Michael read to her from literary works he is studying. The 36-year-old Hanna seduces him, and they begin an affair. Michael, diagnosed with scarlet fever, recuperates at home until recovered, and then visits Hanna with flowers to thank her. A tram conductor named Hanna Schmitz who lives there, cleans him up and helps him return home. Pausing beside an apartment building, he vomits. In the flashback, as a 15-year-old boy, Michael feels sick while wandering the streets. In 1995 Berlin, after a woman who had spent the night with Michael Berg leaves his apartment abruptly, he watches a U-Bahn pass by, setting up a flashback to a tram in 1958. The film itself was nominated for several other major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Īlthough it received mixed reviews, Winslet and Kross, who plays the young Michael, received acclaim for their performances Winslet won a number of awards for her role, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some historians criticised the film for making Schmitz an object of the audience's sympathy and accused the filmmakers of Holocaust revisionism. Michael realizes that Hanna is keeping a personal secret she believes is worse than her Nazi past – a secret which, if revealed, could help her at the trial. She disappears only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp.
The film tells the story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a 15-year-old in 1958, has a sexual relationship with an older woman, Hanna Schmitz. Production began in Germany in September 2007, and the film opened in limited release on December 10, 2008. It was the last film for producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack, both of whom died prior to its release. It stars Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, and David Kross. The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink.
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