The reader

Resource Information

The work The reader represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in North Webster Community Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The reader

Statement of responsibility

the Weinstein Company presents ; a Mirage Enterprises production ; a Neunte Babelsberg Film GmBH production ; directed by Stephen Daldry ; screenplay by David Hare ; produced by Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris

Contributor

• Winslet, Kate
• Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008
• Gigliotti, Donna
• trueSchlink, Bernhard
• Daldry, Stephen
• Kross, David, 1990-
• Fiennes, Ralph
• Ganz, Bruno
• Mirage Enterprises (Firm)
• Morris, Redmond
• Minghella, Anthony
• Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Weinstein Company
• Muhly, Nico
• Olin, Lena
• Hare, David, 1947-
• Genius Products, Inc
• Neunte Babelsberg Film (Firm)

Actor

• Winslet, Kate
• Kross, David, 1990-
• Fiennes, Ralph
• Ganz, Bruno
• Olin, Lena

Screenwriter

• Hare, David, 1947-

Composer

• Muhly, Nico

Director

• Daldry, Stephen

Producer

• Pollack, Sydney, 1934-2008
• Gigliotti, Donna
• Morris, Redmond
• Minghella, Anthony

Subject

• Oral reading
• Paramours
• Law students
• Feature films -- Germany
• Law students -- Germany -- Drama
• War crime trials
• Relaciones hombre-mujer -- Germany -- Teatro
• Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- Fiction
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Drama
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1939-1945
• Feature films
• Feature films | United States
• Paramours -- Germany -- Drama
• Schlink, Bernhard -- Film adaptations
• May-December romances
• War crime trials -- Germany -- Drama
• Drama
• Feature films
• Man-woman relationships -- Germany -- Drama
• Germany
• Lectura oral -- Germany -- Teatro
• Foreign films
• Atrocities
• Man-woman relationships
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Film adaptations
• Schlink, Bernhard
• Oral reading -- Drama
• May-December romances -- Drama

Genre

• Feature films
• Fiction
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Teatro
• United States
• trueFilm adaptations
• trueDrama
• Foreign films

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

"What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love, and history are three skeins, woven together to create human beings or, alternately, human monsters. The question of wartime culpability undergirds the May-December romance in postwar Berlin between Hanna, a weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar ticket-taker and Michael, a young schoolboy whom she seduces, ravenously and to his great delight. One day, Hanna is gone, with no explanation, and Michael grows into a promising young law student. His class attends a trial, where the new Germany judges the past and, by default, the lovers as well."--Container

Awards note

Academy Awards 2009: Winner, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directors of photography, Chris Menges, Roger Deakins ; production designer, Brigitte Broch ; editor, Claire Simpson ; music, Nico Muhly ; English novel translation by Carol Brown Janeway

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Rated R for some scenes of sexuality and nudity

Language note

In English or dubbed French; optional subtitles in Spanish; optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.R43 2009

PerformerNote

Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Karoline Herfurth, Linda Bassett, Hannah Herzsprung, Susanne Lothar, Volker Bruch, Matthias Habich

Runtime

124

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action