The Reader Movie (2008) Trailer - Plot Synopsis: Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director : Stephen Daldry
Writers : David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz
Director : Stephen Daldry
Writers : David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz
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Short filmTranscript
00:00 (silence)
00:02 - Why don't you start by being honest with me?
00:08 - I've never told anyone.
00:11 - Maybe you should.
00:12 (soft piano music)
00:17 - When I was young, I had an affair.
00:20 - She was a friend of yours?
00:23 - A kind of friend.
00:29 - She liked being read to.
00:31 - You never tell me what you've been studying.
00:33 - I'm studying a play.
00:34 You can read it.
00:35 - I'd rather listen to you.
00:37 - Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns.
00:41 - Driven time and again off course.
00:44 - Why do you leave early?
00:48 - He always leaves early.
00:50 - The affair only lasted a summer.
00:52 - I can't live without you.
00:54 Even the thought of it kills me.
00:56 You love me.
00:58 (sirens)
01:00 - Excuse me, I'm looking for Hannah Schmitz.
01:02 - Schmitz is left.
01:03 - Left?
01:03 Did she say where she was going?
01:05 (crowd shouting)
01:06 - Silence in the court.
01:07 - Nazi!
01:09 - I'm going to take these cases one by one.
01:12 - My name is Hannah Schmitz.
01:14 - You joined the SS in 1943?
01:16 - They were looking for guards.
01:18 - I was a law student.
01:19 I remember very clearly.
01:21 - Societies think they operate by morality, but they don't.
01:25 (dramatic music)
01:28 - Each of the guards will choose a certain number of women.
01:31 - In the evening, Hannah Schmitz asked them to join her.
01:34 She was making these women read aloud to her.
01:37 - You keep telling us to think like lawyers.
01:39 What are we trying to do?
01:40 - We are trying to understand.
01:42 - Look at that woman.
01:43 - Which woman?
01:44 - The woman you're always staring at.
01:46 - I don't know which woman you mean.
01:48 - Did she acknowledge the effect she'd had on your life?
01:50 - She had done much worse to other people.
01:53 - You were picking women out and saying,
01:54 you and you and you have to be sent back to be killed.
01:56 - No, no!
01:58 (dramatic music)
01:59 - Have you spent much time thinking about the past?
02:02 (dramatic music)
02:04 - Doesn't matter what I think.
02:06 - It doesn't matter what I feel.
02:09 - The dead are still dead.
02:10 (dramatic music)
02:13 - How wrong can you be?
02:23 (gentle music)
02:26 (gentle music)