The Reader

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I read this novel (by Bernhard Schlink) many years ago, but I just watched the film a few days ago. The novel is an intelligent rendering of issues that are quite complicated, especially in a moral sense. Although I haven't read it again in the intervening years, I thought that the film captured the sense of the book quite well. I was particularly impressed with David Kross, who played the younger Michael.

The Reader, based on the novel The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, directed by Stephen Daldry, written for the screen by David Hare, and starring Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz, David Kross as a younger Michael Berg, and Ralph Fiennes as an older Michael Berg.