The Reader 

Director : Stephen daldry

Story     : Bernhard schlink

Hanna    ; Kate Winslet

Michael Berg : Davi Koss ,Ralph Fiennes 

Sophie    : Vijessna Ferkic 

        

 Let me start with the book first because writing about the reader movie, first little discussion about the book. The book is a real page-turner. It was an acclaimed book published in Germany in 1995. the popularity of the book got escalated when it got chosen for Oprah's book club .though the author refused to disclose whether there is real life basis for Schmitz.

                                                                      Story 

It starts with the time when the boy of 15 then, a German lawyer in the year 1958, Michael Berg had an illegitimate relationship with an older woman. Later the relationship takes a turn into a more passionate one and it gets into a sexual relationship between a 15-year-old boy with an older woman Hanna Schmitz. This is a time after world war 11 when Germany rebuilds itself. This teenager meets the lady bus conductor. He is actually several years senior. After some time their relationship becomes very passionate. His heart is broken when Hanna abruptly moves away without informing him.

Later, after many years when Michael Berg decides that he will study law at Heidelberg University, he is shocked to discover that Hanna is on a trial for Nazi war crimes. It is a story dealing with difficulties post-war 

I had seen in the movie, basically surrounding guilt & shame post-war o Germany.

Michael had been spending more time with his friends. So the distance between them had been drifting gradually. So he feels guilty.

The end of the movie is very touchy & it has a weightage too. On the day of Hanna's release, after 18 years of spending in jail for no crime, when the jail in charge approaches Michael to come on the day of her release as she has no one else other than Michael on Earth. He went to receive him and found that she committed SUICIDE after leaving for him one assignment -To give all her money to the survivor of the church fire.

I would recommend a great movie to watch that touches everyones heart.

                                                                Cast

Michael Berg: He was first portrayed as a 15 yr old, but later became a researcher in legal history 

Hanna Schmitz; Former guard who was not literate but her willpower made her literate .she takes her life in the end.

Sophie: a friend of Michael and the first person whom he tells about Hanna.