directed by: Stephen Daldry, year: 2008
actors: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross

The Reader is a 2008 drama film based on the German novel of the same name. It follows the story of a young man who has an affair with an older woman, only to discover years later that she was a Nazi concentration camp guard. The film explores themes of guilt, shame, and redemption.

Guilt, Literacy, Holocaust, Secrecy, Redemption