Movie Info
Genre
DramaRelease Date
January 09, 2009 (Limited)Production Budget
$40 millionsStudio
The Weinstein Company
Cast and Crew
Director
Stephen DaldryProducer
Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Scott RudinScreenwriter
David HareStarring
- Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz
- Ralph Fiennes as Older Michael
- Alexandra Maria Lara
- Bruno Ganz
- Karoline Herfurth
- Linda Bassett
- Susanne Lothar
- Hannah Herzsprung
- David Kross
Movie Story
Based on Bernhard Schlink's international best-selling novel, the story is set in postwar Germany and centers on Michael Berg, who is 15 years old when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But to his horror, he discovers that she is a defendant in a Nazi war crimes trial, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime.
